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| author | aarne <aarne@chalmers.se> | 2009-12-09 09:47:16 +0000 |
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| committer | aarne <aarne@chalmers.se> | 2009-12-09 09:47:16 +0000 |
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diff --git a/index.txt b/index.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6068ffea1..000000000 --- a/index.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,211 +0,0 @@ - - - -%!postproc(html): "#BECE" "<center>" -%!postproc(html): "#ENCE" "</center>" -%!postproc(html): "#BESMALL" "<font size=-1>" -%!postproc(html): "#ENSMALL" "</font>" -%!postproc(html): "#BELARGE" "<font size=+2>" -%!postproc(html): "#ENLARGE" "</font>" - -#BECE - -[doc/gf-logo.png] - -=Grammatical Framework= - -Version 3.0 - -June 2008 - - -#BELARGE - -``[`` [Demos demos/index.html] -``|`` [Download download/index.html] -``|`` [Libraries lib/resource/doc/synopsis.html] -``|`` [Reference doc/gf-refman.html] -``|`` [Tutorial doc/gf-tutorial.html] -``]`` - -#ENLARGE - -``[`` [Demos demos/index.html] -``|`` [Download download/index.html] -``|`` [Developers doc/gf-developers.html] -% ``|`` [Events doc/events.html] -``|`` [Libraries lib/resource/doc/synopsis.html] -``|`` [People doc/gf-people.html] -% ``|`` [Projects doc/projects.html] -``|`` [Publications doc/gf-bibliography.html] -``|`` [QuickRefCard doc/gf-reference.html] -``|`` [Reference doc/gf-refman.html] -``|`` [Tutorial doc/gf-tutorial.html] -``]`` - -#ENCE - - -#BESMALL - -==News== - -20 April 2009: -On-line course "GF for Resource Grammar Writers" starting today at 15.30. See the -[Summer School Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/gf-resource-school-2009] -for instructions how to start. - -3 April 2009: -Two demos and one talk on GF at [EACL http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/] in Athens. - -20 February 2009: -[GF Resource Grammar Summer School doc/gf-summerschool.html] -in Gothenburg, 17-28 August 2009. - -4 November 2008: -GHC 6.10 released, but it doesn't work with GF sources yet. -If compiling GF from source, use e.g. -[GHC 6.8.3 http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_683.html]. - -15 August 2008: -[Numeral translator for the iPhone demos/index-numbers.html] - -27 June 2008: -[release of GF 3.0 doc/gf3-release.html] and this new web page; the old web page is -[here ../GF2/index.html]. - - -#ENSMALL - - -==What is GF== - -GF, Grammatical Framework, is a programming language for -**multilingual grammar applications**. It is -- a **special-purpose language for grammars**, like YACC, Bison, Happy, BNFC, - but not restricted to programming languages -- a **functional language**, like Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scheme, SML, - but specialized to grammar writing -- a **natural language processing framework**, like LKB, XLE, Regulus, - but based on functional programming and type theory -- a **categorial grammar formalism**, like ACG, CCG, - but different and equipped with different tools -- a **logical framework**, like Agda, Coq, Isabelle, - but equipped with concrete syntax in addition to logic - - -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. - - -==Applications== - -GF can be used for building -- [text translators lib/resource/doc/resdemo.html] -- [speech translators http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/gf/translatespeech.html] -- [natural-language interfaces http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/Tutorial/GFplugin.html] -- [multilingual web pages http://www.restauranggajden.se/tomas/] -- [multilingual authoring systems http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~markus/gramlets/letter-applet.html] -- [dialogue systems http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/xv/pizza/] -- [language training systems http://csmisc14.cs.chalmers.se/~bjorn/langtrain.cgi] -- [natural language resources lib/resource/doc/synopsis.html] - - -==Availability== - -GF is **open-source**, licensed under [GPL LICENSE] (the program) and -[LGPL lib/LICENSE] (the libraries). It -is available for -- Linux -- Mac OS X -- Windows -- via compilation to JavaScript, almost any platform that has a web browser - - -==Projects== - -GF was first created in 1998 at -[Xerox Research Centre Europe http://www.xrce.xerox.com/], -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. - -Later projects using GF and involving third parties include, in chronological order, -- [GF-Alfa http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/Tutorial/GFplugin.html]: - natural language interface to formal proofs -- [Efficient http://efficient.citi.tudor.lu/index_noframe.html]: - authoring tool for business models. -- [GF-KeY http://www.key-project.org/]: - authoring and translation of software specifications -- [TALK http://www.talk-project.org]: - multilingual and multimodal spoken dialogue systems -- [WebALT http://webalt.math.helsinki.fi/]: - multilingual generation of mathematical exercises (commercial project) -- [SALDO http://spraakbanken.gu.se/sal/]: - Swedish morphological dictionary based on rules developed for GF and - [Functional Morphology http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~markus/FM/] - - -Academically, GF has been used in four PhD theses and resulted in around -fifty scientific publications (see [GF publication list doc/gf-bibliography.html]). - - -==Programming in GF== - -GF is easy to learn by following the [tutorial doc/gf-tutorial.html]. -You can write your first translator in 15 minutes. - -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: -- Haskell -- Java -- JavaScript -- Prolog -- Speech recognition: HTK/ATK, Nuance, JSGF - - -The GF programming language is high-level and advanced, featuring -- static type checking -- higher-order functions -- dependent types -- pattern matching with data constructors and regular expressions -- module system with multiple inheritance and parametrized modules - - -==Libraries== - -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 -[GF resource grammar library lib/resource/doc/synopsis.html] has -support for an increasing number of languages, currently including -+ Arabic (partial) -+ Bulgarian -+ Catalan (partial) -+ Danish -+ English -+ Finnish -+ French -+ German -+ Hindi/Urdu (fragments) -+ [Interlingua http://www.interlingua.com/] -+ Italian -+ Norwegian bokm�l -+ Russian -+ Spanish -+ Swedish -+ Thai (fragments) - - -Adding a language to the resource library takes 3 to 9 -months - contributions -are welcome! - -% [doc/10lang-small.png] - - |
