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Bryce Harrington is working on something like this for the Open Clip Art Library. I believe his CPAN id is BRYCE. You might want to collaborate with him. The DMS he's working on doesn't rely on Oracle, but the capabilities you describe are exactly the sort of things he wants it to do, ultimately. I'm not sure how much of it is done, but he's released several alpha versions, so I know he has done at least some significant actual coding on it, in addition to planning and thinking it through.

"In adjectives, with the addition of inflectional endings, a changeable long vowel (Qamets or Tsere) in an open, propretonic syllable will reduce to Vocal Shewa. This type of change occurs when the open, pretonic syllable of the masculine singular adjective becomes propretonic with the addition of inflectional endings."  — Pratico & Van Pelt, BBHG, p68

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