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\title{{\Large \bf Building Natural-Language Applications in GF}}
\author{Aarne Ranta}
\begin{document}
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\maketitle
\chapter*{Introduction}
This book is written for programmers who want to build
natural-language applications without first having to acquire
professional training in linguistics. The aim with making this
happen is to make natural-language applications more wide-spread
and to improve their quality. The tool that makes this possible
is the Grammatical Framework, GF.
There are many reasons why natural-language applications are not
common. One reason is that they are difficult to build. No-one has
ever managed to write a program that correctly recognizes arbitrary
natural-language input in any language.
GF is a special-purpose programming language for writing grammars.
Programs written in GF are called grammars. A grammar is a declarative
description of a language, which can be a natural language (like
English or Finnish) or a formal language (like C or predicate logic).
\chapter{Building a Phrase Book}
\chapter{Using a Linguistic Resource}
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