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From: "John J. Camilleri"
-Grammatical Framework: Programming with Multilingual Grammars
-Aarne Ranta
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-This is the web page of the book -
- --Publisher's web page (look for "Series" -> "CSLI Studies in Computational Linguistics") -
-- http://www-csli.stanford.edu/pubs/ -
- --Direct order ($32.50 paperback, $70 hardcover): -
-- http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo12469871.html -
--Amazon order USA ($32.50 paperback, $70 hardcover): -
- --Amazon order UK (£21 paperback, £45 hardcover): -
- - --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. -
--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. -
--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. -
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- @Book{ranta-2011,
- author = {Aarne Ranta},
- title = {{Grammatical Framework:
- Programming with Multilingual Grammars}},
- publisher = {{CSLI Publications}},
- year = {2011},
- address = "Stanford",
- note = "ISBN-10: 1-57586-626-9 (Paper), 1-57586-627-7 (Cloth)"
- }
-
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--Slides for teaching the book chapter by chapter. -
--Code examples. You can also download the -complete example set as a compressed tar file, -gf-book-examples.tgz. -
--GF Web IDE: -build grammars in the cloud, without installing GF. -
--Demos -
- --Other tutorials: -
- --Works mentioned in references; -more download links will be added. -
--Resource Grammar Library API -
--Sources and binaries -for GF 3.2, which exactly matches the book. -
--GF Home Page: http://www.grammaticalframework.org/ -
--Author's email: aarne'at'chalmers'dot'se -
--Author's home page: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/ -
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