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+</div> --> -<script type="text/javascript"> -document.write('<div style="float: right; margin-top: 3ex;"> <form onsubmit="return sitesearch()" method=get action="http://www.google.com/search"> <input type=search name="q" placeholder="site search"> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></div>') -</script> - -<H2 class=noclear>News</H2> - -<div class=news2> - - <table class=news> -<tr><td>2018-07-25:<td>The GF repository has been split in two: - <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-core">gf-core</a> and - <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-rgl">gf-rgl</a>. - The original <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/GF">GF</a> repository is now archived. -<tr><td>2017-08-11:<td><strong>GF 3.9 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.9.html">Release notes</a>. -<tr><td>2017-06-29:<td>GF is moving to <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/GF/">GitHub</a>! -<tr><td>2017-03-13:<td><strong>GF Summer School in Riga (Latvia), 14-25 August 2017</strong> - <a href="http://school.grammaticalframework.org/2017/">Summer - School web page</a>. -<tr><td>2016-09-07:<td><strong>Google Tech Talk on GF</strong> <a - href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1LFbDQhbso">on Youtube</a>. -<tr><td>2016-07-05:<td>GitHub mirror temporarily not updated, due to server migration. -<tr><td>2016-06-22:<td><strong>GF 3.8 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.8.html">Release notes</a>. -<tr><td>2015-06-21:<td><strong>Summer School in Rule-Based Machine - Translation in Alacant/Alicante (Spain), 11-21 July 2016</strong> - featuring GF, Apertium, Matxin, and TectoMT. - <a href="http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/rbmt-summer-school/2016/">Summer - School web page</a>. -<tr><td>2016-06-14:<td>New resource grammar language: Nynorsk. -<tr><td>2015-10-02:<td><strong>GF 3.7.1 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.7.1.html">Release notes</a>. -<tr><td>2015-06-25:<td><strong>GF 3.7 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.7.html">Release notes</a>. -<tr><td>2015-03-13:<td>New resource grammar language: Mongolian. - See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>. -<tr><td>2015-02-09:<td><strong>GF Summer School in Gozo (Malta), 13-24 July 2015</strong> - <a href="http://school.grammaticalframework.org/2015/">Summer - School web page</a>. -<tr><td>2014-06-23:<td><strong>GF 3.6 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.6.html">Release notes</a>. -<tr><td>2014-03-11: - <td>A company for commercial applications of GF has been founded: - <a href="http://www.digitalgrammars.com/">Digital Grammars</a>. -<tr><td>2013-11-25: - <td>The default character encoding in GF grammar files will be changed - from Latin-1 to UTF-8. See - <a href="download/encoding-change.html">GF character encoding changes</a> - for details. -<tr><td>2013-10-18:<td>New resource grammar language: Estonian. - See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>. -<tr><td>2013-09-18:<td>New <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-contrib">GF contributions repository</a>, hosted on GitHub. -<tr><td>2013-08-06:<td><strong>GF 3.5 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.5.html">Release notes</a>. -<tr><td>2013-07-26:<td>Started a page with <A HREF="lib/doc/rgl-publications.html">RGL Documentation and Publications</A>. -<tr><td>2013-06-24:<td>We are now running the IRC channel <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=gf"><strong><code>#gf</code></strong></a> on the Freenode network. -<tr><td>2013-06-19:<td>New resource grammar language: Maltese. - See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>. -<tr><td>2013-04-25:<td>New resource grammar language: Greek. - See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>. -<tr><td>2013-01-31:<td><strong>GF 3.4 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.4.html">Release notes</a>. -<tr><td>2012-12-10:<td> - <a href="http://www.postcrashgames.com/gf_world/">Resource Grammar Library - coverage map</a>, created by Tommi Nieminen. -<!-- -<tr><td>2012-11-18:<td> - <A HREF="http://school.grammaticalframework.org/2013">GF Summer School</A> - in Frauenchiemsee, 18-30 August 2013. -<tr><td>2012-11-18:<td>New resource grammar language: Chinese. - See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>. - Complete but not yet perfect. -<tr><td>2012-06-29:<td>GF sources now mirrored in GitHub, with change - statistics and other browsing features. - See <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/GF/"><tt>github.com/GrammaticalFramework/GF</tt></a> -<tr><td>2012-05-07:<td>New resource grammar language: Japanese. - See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>. -<tr><td>2012-03-23:<td>There will be a - <a href="gf-tutorial-icfp-2012/">GF tutorial at ICFP 2012</a> - in Copenhagen. -<tr><td>2012-03-03:<td><strong>GF 3.3.3 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.3.3.html">Release notes</a>. - <tr><td>2012-02-24:<td>New resource grammar languages: Hindi, Sindhi. - See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>. -<tr><td>2011-12-29:<td>New resource grammar languages: Latvian, Thai. - See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>. -<tr><td>2011-10-27:<td><strong>GF 3.3 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.3.html">Release notes</a>. -<tr><td>2011-09-20:<td>There is now a page collecting - <a href="doc/gf-editor-modes.html">editor modes for GF</a>. - Contributions are welcome! -<tr><td>2011-09-12:<td><strong>GF 3.2.9</strong> source snapshot with faster grammar compilation available. See <a href="download/index.html">Downloads</a>. -<tr><td>2011-04-22:<td><a href="android/tutorial/">JPGF Android Tutorial</a> added. -<tr><td>2011-04-15:<td>The <a href="gf-book">GF Book</a> is available. -<tr><td>2011-01-13:<td><a href="http://www.molto-project.eu/node/1177">Phrasedroid - available on the Android Market</a>. -<tr><td>2011-01-04:<td>GF is part of the - <a href="http://www.clt.gu.se/clt-toolkit">CLT Toolkit</a>. -<tr><td>2010-12-23:<td><strong>GF 3.2 released!</strong> - <a href="download/release-3.2.html">Release notes</a>. ---> -</table> - -</div> - -<H2>What is GF</H2> -<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 +<strong>multilingual grammar applications</strong>. It is +</p> +<ul> +<li>a <strong>special-purpose language for grammars</strong>, like <a href="http://dinosaur.compilertools.net/yacc/">YACC</a>, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/">Bison</a>, <a href="http://www.haskell.org/happy/">Happy</a>, <a href="http://bnfc.digitalgrammars.com/">BNFC</a>, but not restricted to programming languages -<LI>a <B>functional programming language</B>, like +<li>a <strong>functional programming language</strong>, like <a href="http://www.haskell.org/">Haskell</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)">Lisp</a>, <a href="http://ocaml.org/">OCaml</a>, <a href="http://www.smlnj.org/">SML</a>, <a href="http://schemers.org/">Scheme</a>, but specialized to grammar writing -<LI>a <B>development platform for natural language grammars</B>, like +<li>a <strong>development platform for natural language grammars</strong>, like <a href="http://moin.delph-in.net/LkbTop">LKB</a>, <a href="http://www2.parc.com/isl/groups/nltt/xle/">XLE</a>, <a href="http://www.issco.unige.ch/en/research/projects/regulus/news.shtml">Regulus</a>, but based on functional programming and type theory -<LI>a <B>categorial grammar formalism</B>, like +<li>a <strong>categorial grammar formalism</strong>, like <a href="http://www.loria.fr/equipes/calligramme/acg/">ACG</a>, <a href="http://openccg.sourceforge.net/">CCG</a>, but specialized for multilingual grammars, -<LI>a <B>logical framework</B>, like +<li>a <strong>logical framework</strong>, like <a href="http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php">Agda</a>, <a href="http://coq.inria.fr/">Coq</a>, <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/hvg/Isabelle/">Isabelle</a>, but equipped with concrete syntax in addition to logic -<li>a <b>platform for machine translation</b>, like +<li>a <strong>platform for machine translation</strong>, like <a href="http://www.statmt.org/moses/">Moses</a>, <a href="http://www.apertium.org/">Apertium</a>, but based on deep structural analysis (and usually applied for limited fragments of language). -</UL> +</ul> -<P> +<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="http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/translator/">translation systems</A> -<LI><A HREF="http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/minibar/minibar.html">multilingual web gadgets</A> -<LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/Tutorial/GFplugin.html">natural-language interfaces</A> -<LI><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bfaYHWS6zU">dialogue 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="./LICENSE">LGPL</A> and <A HREF="./LICENSE">BSD</A> (the libraries). It -is available for -</P> -<UL> -<LI>Linux -<LI>Mac OS X -<LI>Windows -<li>Android mobile platform (via Java; runtime) -<LI>via compilation to JavaScript, almost any platform that has a web browser (runtime) -</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.cse.chalmers.se/alumni/markus/FM/">Functional Morphology</A> -<LI><a href="http://www.molto-project.eu">MOLTO</a>: - multilingual online translation -<LI><a href="http://remu.grammaticalframework.org">REMU</a>: - reliable multilingual digital communication. -</UL> -<p> -Here is a <a -href="http://videos.xrce.xerox.com/index.php/videos/index/618">talk -about GF at XRCE</a>, -14 years later. - -<P> -Academically, GF has been used in at least ten PhD theses and resulted -in more than a hundred -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/tutorial/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, in particular the Android platform -<LI>JavaScript -<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> - -<h3>Getting help</h3> -<p> -If you need some help with GF, the first places to start are the <a href="doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial.html">Tutorial</a> and <a href="doc/gf-refman.html">Reference</a> pages. -The printed <a href="gf-book">book</a> contains all the material in the tutorial and some extra bits, and is the recommended reference for GF. </p> -<p> -We run the IRC channel <strong><code>#gf</code></strong> on the Freenode network, where you are welcome to look for help with small questions or just start a general discussion. -IRC logs (in raw format) are available <a href="irc/">here</a>. -If you have a larger question which the community may benefit from, we recommend you ask it on the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/gf-dev">mailing list</a>. -</p> +<div class="row"> + + <div class="col-sm-6"> + <h2>Applications & Availability</h2> + <p> + GF can be used for building + <a href="http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/translator/">translation systems</a>, + <a href="http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/minibar/minibar.html">multilingual web gadgets</a>, + <a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/Tutorial/GFplugin.html">natural-language interfaces</a>, + <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bfaYHWS6zU">dialogue systems</a>, and + <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">natural language resources</a>. + </p> -<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 class=languages> -<LI>Afrikaans -<LI>Amharic (partial) -<LI>Arabic (partial) -<LI>Bulgarian -<LI>Catalan -<LI>Chinese -<LI>Danish -<LI>Dutch -<LI>English -<LI>Estonian -<LI>Finnish -<LI>French -<LI>German -<li>Greek ancient (partial) -<li>Greek modern -<li>Hebrew (fragments) -<LI>Hindi -<LI><A HREF="http://www.interlingua.com/">Interlingua</A> -<LI>Japanese -<LI>Italian -<LI>Latin (fragments) -<LI>Latvian -<li>Maltese -<li>Mongolian -<LI>Nepali -<LI>Norwegian bokmål -<LI>Norwegian nynorsk -<LI>Persian -<LI>Polish -<li>Punjabi -<LI>Romanian -<LI>Russian -<LI>Sindhi -<LI>Slovene (partial) -<LI>Spanish -<li>Swahili (fragments) -<LI>Swedish -<LI>Thai -<LI>Turkish (fragments) -<LI>Urdu -</ol> - -<P> -Adding a language to the resource library takes 3 to 9 -months - contributions -are welcome! You can start with the <A HREF="doc/gf-lrec-2010.pdf">resource grammarian's tutorial</A>. + <p> + GF is <strong>open-source</strong>, licensed under <a href="liCENSE">GPL</a> (the program) and + <a href="./liCENSE">LGPL</a> and <a href="./liCENSE">BSD</a> (the libraries). It + is available for + </p> + <ul> + <li>Linux + <li>Mac OS X + <li>Windows + <li>Android mobile platform (via Java; runtime) + <li>via compilation to JavaScript, almost any platform that has a web browser (runtime) + </ul> + <h2>Programming in GF</h2> + <p> + GF is easy to learn by following the <a href="doc/tutorial/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, in particular the Android platform + <li>JavaScript + <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> + + <h3>Getting help</h3> + <p> + If you need some help with GF, the first places to start are the <a href="doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial.html">Tutorial</a> and <a href="doc/gf-refman.html">Reference</a> pages. + The printed <a href="gf-book">book</a> contains all the material in the tutorial and some extra bits, and is the recommended reference for GF. + </p> + + <p> + We run the IRC channel <strong><code>#gf</code></strong> on the Freenode network, where you are welcome to look for help with small questions or just start a general discussion. + IRC logs (in raw format) are available <a href="irc/">here</a>. + If you have a larger question which the community may benefit from, we recommend you ask it on the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/gf-dev">mailing list</a>. + </p> + + </div> + + <div class="col-sm-6"> + <h2>News</h2> + + <dl class="row"> + <dt class="col-sm-3 text-center">2018-11-28</dt> + <dd class="col-sm-9"> + <strong>GF 18.12 released.</strong> + </dd> + <dt class="col-sm-3 text-center">2018-07-25</dt> + <dd class="col-sm-9"> + The GF repository has been split in two: + <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-core">gf-core</a> and + <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-rgl">gf-rgl</a>. + The original <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/GF">GF</a> repository is now archived. + </dd> + <dt class="col-sm-3 text-center">2017-08-11</dt> + <dd class="col-sm-9"> + <strong>GF 3.9 released.</strong> + <a href="download/release-3.9.html">Release notes</a> + </dd> + <dt class="col-sm-3 text-center">2017-06-29</dt> + <dd class="col-sm-9"> + GF is moving to <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/GF/">GitHub</a>.</dd> + <dt class="col-sm-3 text-center">2017-03-13</dt> + <dd class="col-sm-9"> + <a href="http://school.grammaticalframework.org/2017/">GF Summer School</a> in Riga (Latvia), 14-25 August 2017 + </dd> + </dl> + + <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.cse.chalmers.se/alumni/markus/FM/">Functional Morphology</a> + <li><a href="http://www.molto-project.eu">MOLTO</a>: + multilingual online translation + <li><a href="http://remu.grammaticalframework.org">REMU</a>: + reliable multilingual digital communication. + </ul> + <p> + Here is a <a + href="http://videos.xrce.xerox.com/index.php/videos/index/618">talk + about GF at XRCE</a>, + 14 years later. + + <p> + Academically, GF has been used in at least ten PhD theses and resulted + in more than a hundred + scientific publications (see <a href="doc/gf-bibliography.html">GF publication list</a>). + </p> + + <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 + Afrikaans, + Amharic (partial), + Arabic (partial), + Bulgarian, + Catalan, + Chinese, + Danish, + Dutch, + English, + Estonian, + Finnish, + French, + German, + Greek ancient (partial), + Greek modern, + Hebrew (fragments), + Hindi, + Interlingua, + Japanese, + Italian, + Latin (fragments), + Latvian, + Maltese, + Mongolian, + Nepali, + Norwegian bokmål, + Norwegian nynorsk, + Persian, + Polish, + Punjabi, + Romanian, + Russian, + Sindhi, + Slovene (partial), + Spanish, + Swahili (fragments), + Swedish, + Thai, + Turkish (fragments), + Urdu + </p> + + <p> + Adding a language to the resource library takes 3 to 9 + months - contributions + are welcome! 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