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It is -</P> -<UL> -<LI>a <B>special-purpose language for grammars</B>, like YACC, Bison, Happy, BNFC -<LI>a <B>functional language</B>, like Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scheme, SML -<LI>a <B>natural language processing framework</B>, like LKB, XLE, Regulus -<LI>a <B>categorial grammar formalism</B>, like ACG, CCG -<LI>a <B>logical framework</B>, like Agda, Coq, Isabelle -</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>[text translators ] -<LI>[speech translators ] -<LI>[natural-language interfaces ] -<LI>[multilingual web pages ] -<LI>[multilingual authoring systems ] -<LI>[dialogue systems ] -<LI>[language training systems ] -<LI>[natural language resources ] -</UL> - -<H2>Availability</H2> -<P> -GF is <B>open-source</B>, licensed under [GPL ] (the program) and [LGPL ] (the libraries). It -is available for -</P> -<UL> -<LI>[Linux ] -<LI>[Mac OS X ] -<LI>[Windows ] -<LI>via compilation to [JavaScript ], almost any platform that has a web browser -</UL> - -<H2>Projects</H2> -<P> -GF was born in 1998 at Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble in the project -Multilingual Document Authoring. At Xerox, it was used for prototypes including -a restaurant phrase book in 6 languages, -a database query system in 7 languages, -a formalization of an alarm system instructions with translations to 5 languages, and -an authoring system for medical drug descriptions in 2 languages. -</P> -<P> -Later projects using GF and involving third parties include, in chronological order, -</P> -<UL> -<LI>GF-Alfa: natural language interface to formal proofs -<LI>GF-KeY: authoring and translation of software specifications -<LI>TALK: multilingual and multimodal spoken dialogue systems -<LI>WebALT: multilingual generation of mathematical exercises (commercial project) -<LI>MultiWiki: multilingual Wiki for restaurant reviews -<LI>SALDO: Swedish morphological dictionary based on tools developed for GF -</UL> - -<P> -Academically, GF has been used in four [PhD theses ], and resulted in around -fifty [scientific publications ]. -</P> -<H2>Programming in GF</H2> -<P> -GF is easy to learn by following the <A HREF="doc/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 -<LI>JavaScript -<LI>Prolog -<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> - -<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/">GF resource grammar library</A> has -support for an increasing number of languages, currently including -</P> -<OL> -<LI>Arabic (partial) -<LI>Bulgarian -<LI>Catalan (partial) -<LI>Danish -<LI>English -<LI>Finnish -<LI>French -<LI>German -<LI>Hindi/Urdu (fragments) -<LI><A HREF="http://www.interlingua.com/">Interlingua</A> -<LI>Italian -<LI>Norwegian bokmål -<LI>Russian -<LI>Spanish -<LI>Swedish -<LI>Thai (fragments) -</OL> - -<P> -Adding a language to the resource library takes 3 to 9 -months - <A HREF="doc/projects.html">contributions</A> -are welcome! -</P> - -<!-- html code generated by txt2tags 2.4 (http://txt2tags.sf.net) --> -<!-- cmdline: txt2tags -thtml index-3.txt --> -</BODY></HTML> |
