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diff --git a/gf-book/index.html b/gf-book/index.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9c7a805fe --- /dev/null +++ b/gf-book/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="http://txt2tags.sf.net"> +<TITLE>Grammatical Framework: Programming with Multilingual Grammars</TITLE> +</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black"> +<P ALIGN="center"><CENTER><H1>Grammatical Framework: Programming with Multilingual Grammars</H1> +<FONT SIZE="4"> +<I>Aarne Ranta</I><BR> +**Web page work in progress** +</FONT></CENTER> + +<P> +This is the web page of the book +</P> +<UL> +<LI>Aarne Ranta, + <I>Grammatical Framework: Programming with Multilingual Grammars</I>, + CSLI Publications, + Stanford, + 2011 (to appear). +</UL> + +<H2>Book description</H2> +<P> +Grammars of natural languages are complex systems, and their +computer implementation requires both programming skills and +linguistic knowledge, especially when dealing with other languages +than English. This book makes such tasks accessible for a wide +range of programmers. It introduces GF (Grammatical Framework), +which is a programming language designed for writing grammars, which +may moreover address several languages in parallel. +The book shows how to write grammars in GF and use them in applications +such as tourist phrasebooks, spoken dialogue systems, and natural +language interfaces. The examples and exercises address several +languages, and the readers are guided to look at their own languages +from the computational perspective. +</P> +<P> +With an emphasis on good engineering, the book promotes modularity +and division of labour - in particular, the use of libraries. It +introduces the GF Resource Grammar Library, which currently addresses +16 languages. This number is constantly growing due to contributions +from the international GF community. The library makes it painless to +build applications and to port them to new languages. The book +introduces a wide range of such applications, which run on platforms +ranging from web servers to mobile phones. But the book also gives +guidance for those readers who want to understand the underlying +linguistics and implement resource grammars for new languages. +</P> +<P> +The book starts with a hands-on tutorial, continues with a selection +of advanced topics, and ends with a complete reference manual +of GF. Requiring very little background knowledge, it is accessible +for second-year students that have experience with computers and an +interest for languages. At the same time, its novel and advanced +material makes it interesting for senior researchers in computer science, +linguistics, and related fields. +</P> +<H2>Publisher's information</H2> +<P> +Forthcoming at <A HREF="http://www-csli.stanford.edu/pubs/">http://www-csli.stanford.edu/pubs/</A> +</P> +<H2>How to cite</H2> +<PRE> + @Book{ranta-2011, + author = {Aarne Ranta}, + title = {{Grammatical Framework: + Programming with Multilingual Grammars}}, + publisher = {{CSLI Publications}}, + year = {2011}, + note = "to appear" + } +</PRE> +<P></P> +<H2>Table of Contents</H2> +<P> +<A HREF="toc-gf-book.txt">Preliminary Table of Contents</A> +</P> +<H2>Supporting material</H2> +<P> +Slides for teaching the book chapter by chapter are forthcoming. +The following should be useful before that. +</P> +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="../doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial.html">GF Tutorial</A>: programmer-oriented, + covering parts of chapters 2-8 +<LI><A HREF="../doc/gf-lrec-2010.pdf">GF Resource Tutorial</A>: linguist-oriented, + covering parts of chapters 2-5, 9-10 +</UL> + +<P> +<A HREF="./examples">Code examples</A> +</P> +<P> +Demos +</P> +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org:41296/minibar/minibar.html">on-line translator</A> (Section 7.12) +<LI><A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/demos/resource-api/editor.html">syntax editor</A> (Section 7.13) +<LI><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bfaYHWS6zU">multimodal dialogue system</A> (Section 7.15) +</UL> + +<P> +<A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/doc/gf-bibliography.html">Works mentioned in references</A>, +download links to more works forthcoming. +</P> +<P> +<A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/lib/doc/synopsis.html">Resource Grammar Library API</A> +</P> +<P> +<A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download">Sources and binaries</A> +for GF 3.2, which exactly matches the book. +</P> +<P> +GF Home Page: <A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/">http://www.grammaticalframework.org/</A> +</P> +<P> +Author's email: aarne'at'chalmers'dot'se +</P> +<P> +Author's home page: <A HREF="http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/">http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/</A> +</P> + +<!-- html code generated by txt2tags 2.4 (http://txt2tags.sf.net) --> +<!-- cmdline: txt2tags -thtml index.txt --> +</BODY></HTML> |