<p><strong>Program Overview</strong></p> <p>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).</p> <p>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).</p> <p>Kyunghwan Kim reviewed this package for the journal <em>Computers and the Humanities</em> in 1993. He described Morfogen as \"a finite state compiler for morphological analysis. Rules compiled by <em>Morfogen</em> are used with <em>Morffile</em> and <em>Morfword</em>\" (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).</p> <p>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).</p> <p>Kim had one major complaint about Morfogen et al:</p> <p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\">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 <em>Morfword</em> and <em>Inflword</em>. (Kim 135)</p> <p>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).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Source </strong></p> <p><span>Kyunghwan, Kim. \"Technical Review: Morfogen, Morffile/Morfword, Inflword, Version 2.0.\" <em>Computers and the Humanities</em> 27.2 (1993): 133-135. <a href=\"http://www.jstor.org/stable/30204485\" target=\"_blank\">Web</a>.</span></p>