Aragen was a large-scale lexeme-based Arabic morphological generation system. It used the databases of the Buckwalter Arabic morphological analyzer with a different engine focused on generation rather than analysis. The building of Aragen involved the reversal of the Buckwalter analyzer and extending its databases to be used in a lexeme-plusfeature level of representation. An evaluation of Aragen in terms of Overgeneration / Undergeneration Error Rates indicated it to be more than one order of magnitude better than a simple baseline.
Aragen is no longer available for download. It was initially superceded by Almorgeana. The current version, called Almor, is now distributed as part of the MADA + Tokan Distribution from Columbia University.
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