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Grammatical Framework

+Version 3.5 +
+August 2013 + +

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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. + +

+ +

What is GF

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

a special-purpose language for grammars, like + YACC, + Bison, + Happy, + BNFC, + but not restricted to programming languages +
a functional programming language, like + Haskell, + Lisp, + OCaml, + SML, + Scheme, + but specialized to grammar writing +
a development platform for natural language grammars, like + LKB, + XLE, + Regulus, + but based on functional programming and type theory +
a categorial grammar formalism, like + ACG, + CCG, + but specialized for multilingual grammars, +
a logical framework, like + Agda, + Coq, + Isabelle, + but equipped with concrete syntax in addition to logic +
a platform for machine translation, like + Moses, + Apertium, + but based on deep structural analysis (and usually applied for + limited fragments of language). +

+ +

+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. +

Applications

+GF can be used for building +

+ +

Availability

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

Linux +
Mac OS X +
Windows +
Android mobile platform (via Java; runtime) +
via compilation to JavaScript, almost any platform that has a web browser (runtime) +

+ +

Projects

+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. +

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

GF-Alfa: + natural language interface to formal proofs +
Efficient: + authoring tool for business models. +
GF-KeY: + authoring and translation of software specifications +
TALK: + multilingual and multimodal spoken dialogue systems +
WebALT: + multilingual generation of mathematical exercises (commercial project) +
SALDO: + Swedish morphological dictionary based on rules developed for GF and + Functional Morphology +
MOLTO: + multilingual online translation +
REMU: + reliable multilingual digital communication. +

+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). +

Programming in GF

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

+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: +

Haskell +
Java, in particular the Android platform +
JavaScript +
Speech recognition: HTK/ATK, Nuance, JSGF +

+ +

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

static type checking +
higher-order functions +
dependent types +
pattern matching with data constructors and regular expressions +
module system with multiple inheritance and parametrized modules +

+ +

Getting help

+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. +

+ +

Libraries

+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 +

Afrikaans +
Amharic (partial) +
Arabic (partial) +
Bulgarian +
Catalan +
Chinese +
Danish +
Dutch +
English +
Estonian +
Finnish +
French +
German +
Greek +
Hebrew (fragments) +
Hindi +
Interlingua +
Japanese +
Italian +
Latin (fragments) +
Latvian +
Maltese +
Nepali +
Norwegian bokmål +
Persian +
Polish +
Punjabi +
Romanian +
Russian +
Sindhi +
Spanish +
Swahili (fragments) +
Swedish +
Thai +
Turkish (fragments) +
Urdu +

+ +

+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