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I'm looking for software that supports coding and qualitative analysis with conceptual graphs (CGs). Rather than codes having single concepts, CGs would allow structured coding statements consisting of multiple associated concepts and conceptual relations to be used for greater expressiveness and precision. See links and example below. This capability was discussed by the Richards' paper (1994?) Using Computers in Qualitative Research, in the section on "Conceptual Network Systems", but it doesn't seem to have made it into the advertized features of current QDA software. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, John Hanna ------------------------------------- For CG references, see http://www.cs.uah.edu/~delugach/CG/ For examples, see http://users.bestweb.net/~sowa/cg/cgstand.htm Given English sentence "John is going to Boston by bus" in a PD selection. propositional content would be... Go has an agent which is a person John. Go has a destination which is a city Boston. Go has an instrument which is a bus. and the CG would be... [Go]- (Agnt)->[Person: John] (Dest)->[City: Boston] (Inst)->[Bus]. which can be processed using graph operations and logic for building theory. -------------------------------------