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Grammatical Framework

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News

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2014-03-11: - A company for commercial applications of GF has been founded: - Digital Grammars. -
2013-11-25: - The default character encoding in GF grammar files will be changed - from Latin-1 to UTF-8. See - GF character encoding changes - for details. -
2013-10-18:New resource grammar language: Estonian. - See library synopsis. -
2013-09-18:New GF contributions repository, hosted on GitHub. -
2013-08-06:GF 3.5 released! - Release notes. -
2013-07-26:Started a page with RGL Documentation and Publications. -
2013-06-24:We are now running the IRC channel #gf on the Freenode network. -
2013-06-19:New resource grammar language: Maltese. - See library synopsis. -
2013-04-25:New resource grammar language: Greek. - See library synopsis. -
2013-01-31:GF 3.4 released! - Release notes. -
2012-12-10: - Resource Grammar Library - coverage map, created by Tommi Nieminen. - -
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What is GF

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-GF, Grammatical Framework, is a programming language for -multilingual grammar applications. It is -

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-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. -

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Availability

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-GF is open-source, licensed under GPL (the program) and -LGPL and BSD (the libraries). It -is available for -

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Projects

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-GF was first created 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, -a database query system, -a formalization of an alarm system instructions with translations to 5 languages, and -an authoring system for medical drug descriptions. -

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-Later projects using GF and involving third parties include, in chronological order, -

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-Here is a talk -about GF at XRCE, -14 years later. - -

-Academically, GF has been used in at least ten PhD theses and resulted -in more than a hundred -scientific publications (see GF publication list). -

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Programming in GF

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-GF is easy to learn by following the tutorial. -You can write your first translator in 15 minutes. -

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-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: -

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-The GF programming language is high-level and advanced, featuring -

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Getting help

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-If you need some help with GF, the first places to start are the Tutorial and Reference pages. -The printed book contains all the material in the tutorial and some extra bits, and is the recommended reference for GF. -

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-We run the IRC channel #gf 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 here. -If you have a larger question which the community may benefit from, we recommend you ask it on the mailing list. -

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Libraries

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-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 has -support for an increasing number of languages, currently including -

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  13. German -
  14. Greek -
  15. Hebrew (fragments) -
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  17. Interlingua -
  18. Japanese -
  19. Italian -
  20. Latin (fragments) -
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  22. Maltese -
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  24. Norwegian bokmål -
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  27. Punjabi -
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  32. Swahili (fragments) -
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-Adding a language to the resource library takes 3 to 9 -months - contributions -are welcome! You can start with the resource grammarian's tutorial. - - - - - - -- cgit v1.2.3