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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>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 <strong><code>#gf</code></strong> 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> +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 + <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 + <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 + <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 + <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 + <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 + <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> + +<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> + +<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 +<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>Nepali +<LI>Norwegian bokmål +<LI>Persian +<LI>Polish +<li>Punjabi +<LI>Romanian +<LI>Russian +<LI>Sindhi +<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! 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