PENTHERJ@CC.UTAH.EDU (Joseph Pentheroudakis) (03/06/91)
MORFOGEN: A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND DICTIONARY INTERFACE TOOL ECS announces the release of version 2.0 of Morfogen, a tool used to develop morphological analysis grammars and to interface with any electronic dictionary. Morfogen consists of: a) A rule compiler: inflectional and derivational paradigms are listed in a simple, textbook-style format, and are then compiled into a finite state machine; and b) C source code for the morphological analysis routines: these routines access the compiled grammar and return the stem of anched; they can also be used to reject spurious derivations. Morfogen has been used to build morphological analyzers for French, English and Spanish, and agglutinative languages such as Japanese. Development time for these analyzers has ranged from one to three weeks. The compiled analyzers for these languages are also available, along with the morphological analysis routines. Grammars for Italian, German, Turkish and Korean are forthcoming. Versions exist for DOS, OS/2, SunOS, and Intel Unix/Xenix. The compiled grammars range in size from 13K for the English grammar to 50K for the French grammar; the object file versions of the C routines are less than 20K. The compact size of the grammars and the analysis routines makes them ideal for use in a memory-resident mode. Morfogen is an ideal product for applications requiring morphological analysis and dictionary access. A substantial discount is available for academic institutions. For information or to request a demo disk, contact: Joseph E. Pentheroudakis Executive Communication Systems, Inc. 455 North University Avenue, Suite 202 Provo, Utah 84601 fax: (801) 374-6292 voice: (801) 377-1167 email: ecs@byuvax.bitnet or ecs@yvax.byu.edu