Action category, more doc in Phrasebook

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diff --git a/examples/phrasebook/phrasebook.txt b/examples/phrasebook/phrasebook.txt
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@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ MOLTO Multilingual Phrasebook
 Aarne Ranta
 
 
+History
+- Version 0.1, 26 March 2010. Eng, Fin, Fre, Ron; dedicated minibar UI.
+- Version 0.2, 28 March. Swe; cat Action; small phrases.
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 =Purpose=
 
 This phrasebook is a programme for translating touristic phrases 
@@ -37,3 +43,54 @@ Current status (28 March 2010):
   [here http://tournesol.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/phrasebook/phrasebook.html]
 
 
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+=Points illustrated=
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+The use of resource grammars and functors.
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+Compile-time transfer: especially, in Action in Words.
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+Quasi-incremental translation: many basic types are also used as phrases.
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+Disambiguation, esp. by the parameters in Roles.
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+=Files=
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+abstract Sentences: general syntactic structures implementable by functor
+- concrete by functor SencencesI
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+abstract Words: words and predicates, typically language-dependent
+- concrete separate
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+abstract Greetings: idiomatic phrases, strings with role dependence
+- concrete separate
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+abstract Phrasebook: put everything everything together
+- concrete separate
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+resource Roles: param Politeness, Gender
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+interface DiffPhrasebook: the (so far small) interface for Sentences
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+=To Do=
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+Text-based translation interface.
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+Access to disambiguation grammars in the interface.
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+The remaining 10 languages
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+Extract/construct lexica for
+- food stuff
+- languages
+- places
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