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| author | aarne <aarne@chalmers.se> | 2010-12-22 14:11:55 +0000 |
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| committer | aarne <aarne@chalmers.se> | 2010-12-22 14:11:55 +0000 |
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diff --git a/deprecated/v3.0-index.html b/deprecated/v3.0-index.html deleted file mode 100644 index ce9e342d5..000000000 --- a/deprecated/v3.0-index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,249 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> -<HTML> -<HEAD> -<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="http://txt2tags.sf.net"> -</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black"> -<FONT SIZE="4"> -</FONT></CENTER> - -<P> -<center> -</P> -<P> -<IMG ALIGN="middle" SRC="doc/gf-logo.png" BORDER="0" ALT=""> -</P> -<H1>Grammatical Framework</H1> -<P> -Version 3.1 -</P> -<P> -14 December 2009 -</P> -<P> -<font size=+2> -</P> -<P> -<CODE>[</CODE> <A HREF="demos/index.html">Demos</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="download/index.html">Download</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="lib//doc/synopsis.html">Libraries</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="doc/gf-refman.html">Reference</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="doc/gf-tutorial.html">Tutorial</A> -<CODE>]</CODE> -</P> -<P> -</font> -</P> -<P> -<CODE>[</CODE> <A HREF="demos/index.html">Demos</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="download/index.html">Download</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="doc/gf-developers.html">Developers</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="lib/doc/synopsis.html">Libraries</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="doc/gf-people.html">People</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="doc/gf-bibliography.html">Publications</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="doc/gf-reference.html">QuickRefCard</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="doc/gf-refman.html">Reference</A> -<CODE>|</CODE> <A HREF="doc/gf-tutorial.html">Tutorial</A> -<CODE>]</CODE> -</P> -<P> -</center> -</P> -<P> -<font size=-1> -</P> -<H2>News</H2> - -24 November 2009: We have problems with the release via Darcs. You can -download a recent snapshot of GF (sources, libraries, documentation) -<a href="./gf-091124.tgz">here</a> (<tt>gf-[date].tgz</tt>, 13 MB). -<p> -24 June 2009: GF version 3.0 released. No longer beta! -<p> -4 June 2009: GF sources (from the darcs repository) can now be compiled with GHC 6.10.3, but no -longer with GHC 6.8. -<p> -29 April 2009: GF online course available as videos: see "News" under the -<a href="doc/gf-summerschool.html">GF Summer School Web Page</a>. -<P> -20 April 2009: -On-line course "GF for Resource Grammar Writers" starting today at 15.30. See the -<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/group/gf-resource-school-2009">Summer School Google Group</A> -for instructions how to start. -</P> -<P> -3 April 2009: -Two demos and one talk on GF at <A HREF="http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/">EACL</A> in Athens. -</P> -<P> -20 February 2009: -<A HREF="doc/gf-summerschool.html">GF Resource Grammar Summer School</A> -in Gothenburg, 17-28 August 2009. -</P> -<P> -4 November 2008: -GHC 6.10 released, but it doesn't work with GF sources yet. -If compiling GF from source, use e.g. -<A HREF="http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_683.html">GHC 6.8.3</A>. -</P> -<P> -15 August 2008: -<A HREF="demos/index-numbers.html">Numeral translator for the iPhone</A> -</P> -<P> -27 June 2008: -<A HREF="doc/gf3-release.html">release of GF 3.0</A> and this new web page; the old web page is -<A HREF="../GF2/index.html">here</A>. -</P> -<P> -</font> -</P> -<H2>What is GF</H2> -<P> -GF, Grammatical Framework, is a programming language for -<B>multilingual grammar applications</B>. It is -</P> -<UL> -<LI>a <B>special-purpose language for grammars</B>, like YACC, Bison, Happy, BNFC, - but not restricted to programming languages -<LI>a <B>functional language</B>, like Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scheme, SML, - but specialized to grammar writing -<LI>a <B>natural language processing framework</B>, like LKB, XLE, Regulus, - but based on functional programming and type theory -<LI>a <B>categorial grammar formalism</B>, like ACG, CCG, - but different and equipped with different tools -<LI>a <B>logical framework</B>, like Agda, Coq, Isabelle, - but equipped with concrete syntax in addition to logic -</UL> - -<P> -Don't worry if you don't know most of the references above - but if you do know at -least one, it may help you to get a first idea of what GF is. -</P> -<H2>Applications</H2> -<P> -GF can be used for building -</P> -<UL> -<LI><A HREF="old-lib/resource/doc/resdemo.html">text translators</A> -<LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/gf/translatespeech.html">speech translators</A> -<LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/Tutorial/GFplugin.html">natural-language interfaces</A> -<!-- <LI><A HREF="http://www.restauranggajden.se/tomas/">multilingual web pages</A> --> -<LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~markus/gramlets/letter-applet.html">multilingual authoring systems</A> -<LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/xv/pizza/">dialogue systems</A> -<!-- <LI><A HREF="http://csmisc14.cs.chalmers.se/~bjorn/langtrain.cgi">language training systems</A> --> -<LI><A HREF="lib/doc/synopsis.html">natural language resources</A> -</UL> - -<H2>Availability</H2> -<P> -GF is <B>open-source</B>, licensed under <A HREF="LICENSE">GPL</A> (the program) and -<A HREF="lib/LICENSE">LGPL</A> (the libraries). It -is available for -</P> -<UL> -<LI>Linux -<LI>Mac OS X -<LI>Windows -<LI>via compilation to JavaScript, almost any platform that has a web browser -</UL> - -<H2>Projects</H2> -<P> -GF was first created in 1998 at -<A HREF="http://www.xrce.xerox.com/">Xerox Research Centre Europe</A>, -Grenoble, in the project -Multilingual Document Authoring. At Xerox, it was used for prototypes including -a restaurant phrase book, -a database query system, -a formalization of an alarm system instructions with translations to 5 languages, and -an authoring system for medical drug descriptions. -</P> -<P> -Later projects using GF and involving third parties include, in chronological order, -</P> -<UL> -<LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/Tutorial/GFplugin.html">GF-Alfa</A>: - natural language interface to formal proofs -<LI><A HREF="http://efficient.citi.tudor.lu/index_noframe.html">Efficient</A>: - authoring tool for business models. -<LI><A HREF="http://www.key-project.org/">GF-KeY</A>: - authoring and translation of software specifications -<LI><A HREF="http://www.talk-project.org">TALK</A>: - multilingual and multimodal spoken dialogue systems -<LI><A HREF="http://webalt.math.helsinki.fi/">WebALT</A>: - multilingual generation of mathematical exercises (commercial project) -<LI><A HREF="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/sal/">SALDO</A>: - Swedish morphological dictionary based on rules developed for GF and - <A HREF="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~markus/FM/">Functional Morphology</A> -</UL> - -<P> -Academically, GF has been used in four PhD theses and resulted in around -fifty scientific publications (see <A HREF="doc/gf-bibliography.html">GF publication list</A>). -</P> -<H2>Programming in GF</H2> -<P> -GF is easy to learn by following the <A HREF="doc/gf-tutorial.html">tutorial</A>. -You can write your first translator in 15 minutes. -</P> -<P> -GF has an interactive command interpreter, as well as a batch compiler. -Grammars can be compiled to parser and translator code in many different -formats. These components can then be embedded in applications written -in other programming languages. The formats currently supported are: -</P> -<UL> -<LI>Haskell -<LI>Java -<LI>JavaScript -<LI>Prolog -<LI>Speech recognition: HTK/ATK, Nuance, JSGF -</UL> - -<P> -The GF programming language is high-level and advanced, featuring -</P> -<UL> -<LI>static type checking -<LI>higher-order functions -<LI>dependent types -<LI>pattern matching with data constructors and regular expressions -<LI>module system with multiple inheritance and parametrized modules -</UL> - -<H2>Libraries</H2> -<P> -Libraries are at the heart of modern software engineering. In natural language -applications, libraries are a way to cope with thousands of details involved in -syntax, lexicon, and inflection. The -<A HREF="lib/doc/synopsis.html">GF resource grammar library</A> has -support for an increasing number of languages, currently including -</P> -<OL> -<LI>Arabic (partial) -<LI>Bulgarian -<LI>Catalan (partial) -<LI>Danish -<LI>English -<LI>Finnish -<LI>French -<LI>German -<LI>Hindi/Urdu (fragments) -<LI><A HREF="http://www.interlingua.com/">Interlingua</A> -<LI>Italian -<LI>Norwegian bokm�l -<LI>Russian -<LI>Spanish -<LI>Swedish -<LI>Thai (fragments) -</OL> - -<P> -Adding a language to the resource library takes 3 to 9 -months - contributions -are welcome! -</P> - -<!-- html code generated by txt2tags 2.5 (http://txt2tags.sf.net) --> -<!-- cmdline: txt2tags -\-target=html index.txt --> -</BODY></HTML> |
