Morfogen, Morffile/Morfword, Inflword (Version 2.0)
Morfogen, Morffile/Morfword and Inflword were four historicially important interrelated tools offered as and designed to operate as single package. Morfogen is a finite state compiler for morphological analysis, while Morffile and Morfword utilize Morfogen's compiled rules. Morffile searches a text and replaces them with either their base form or a base form followed by morpheme names. Morfword takes a word input by the user and generates its base forms and morpheme names. Inflword generates inflected words.
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- Type of analysis: Search Natural Language Processing Analysis Content Analysis Discovering
- Type of license: Commercial
- Background Processing: Doesn't Run in Background
- Ease of Use: Easy
- Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential No longer in active development
- TaDiRAH Goals: Analysis
- TaDiRAH Methods: Content Analysis Discovering
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More information on the Morfogen, Morffile/Morfword and Inflword package, and its use, is available in the following articles:
Kyunghwan, Kim. \"Technical Review: Morfogen, Morffile/Morfword, Inflword, Version 2.0.\" Computers and the Humanities 27.2 (1993): 133-135. Web.
\"Morfogen: A Morphological Analysis and Dictionary Interface Tool.\" Vicky A. Walsh, ed. ACH Newsletter 13.2 (1991): 8. Print.
Program Overview
Morfogen, Morffile/Morfword and Inflword were a package set of interrelated tools for morphological analysis (Kim 133). This package was available from Executive Communication Systems, Inc. in Utah, USA, and ran on IBM PCs and compatibles with 640K of RAM and 1MB of free hard drive space (133).
It could perform numerous morphological processes \"from simple prefixation and suffixation to circumfixation, (de)gemination, context sensitive rules and intercalating morphology common in Semitic languages\" (133).
Kyunghwan Kim reviewed this package for the journal Computers and the Humanities in 1993. He described Morfogen as \"a finite state compiler for morphological analysis. Rules compiled by Morfogen are used with Morffile and Morfword\" (133). Morffile conducted a search and replace on the user's text, replacing words with their stems (133). Users could also have Morffile include the names of morphemes with the stem forms (133). Rather than just segmenting words (\"horse + s\"), the Morrfile/Morfword components represented words plus their morphological features as \"horse + plural\" (133).
Morfword generated stem forms and morpheme names for single words typed directly into the user interface (133). The fourth program in the set, Inflword, took user input and produced inflected words by applying a compiled finite state machine generated by a related program called Inflogen (133).
Kim had one major complaint about Morfogen et al:
It would be more convenient for users if the software allowed them to change options, edit input files and reload the files within the program. Another possible improvement would be to have a logging mechanism which writes to a disk file the information displayed on the screen during the execution of Morfword and Inflword. (Kim 135)
The set included a user manual that covers all four programs, the programs on a 5.25in and a 3.5in disk, and dictionaries and rule files for English, French and Turkish, with additional languages available from the publisher (133).
Source
Kyunghwan, Kim. \"Technical Review: Morfogen, Morffile/Morfword, Inflword, Version 2.0.\" Computers and the Humanities 27.2 (1993): 133-135. Web.