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<h1>GF News 2004-2007</h1>

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<i>August 31, 2007</i>. <a href="doc/gf-course.html">GF Graduate Course</a>
organized by <a href="http://www.gslt.hum.gu.se">GSLT</a>: first module
September 13-14 in Gothenburg.

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<i>July 8, 2007</i>. GF 2.8 released. Some highlights:
<ul>
<li> Resource Grammar Library v 1.2: <a href="lib/resource-1.0/doc/synopsis.html">synopsis</a>.
<li> New version of <a href="doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial2.html">tutorial</a>,
     now with exercises and also as a 
     <a href="doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial2.pdf">pdf file</a>,
<li> new speech formats
<li> better semantics of <tt>variants</tt>
<li> lots of bug fixes
</ul>


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<i>June 27, 2007</i>. GF 2.8 forthcoming next week. Some highlights:
<ul>
<li> Resource Grammar Library v 1.2: <a href="lib/resource-1.0/doc/synopsis.html">synopsis</a>.
<li> new speech formats
<li> better semantics of <tt>variants</tt>
<li> lots of bug fixes
</ul>

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<i>December 22, 2006</i>. GF 2.7 released. Some highlights:
<ul>
<li> <a href="doc/gf-history.html#javascript">JavaScript</a> and 
      <a href="doc/gf-history.html#voicexml">VoiceXML</a> 
     generation. These together support the generation of
     a complete dialogue system from grammar.
<li> <a href="doc/gf-history.html#overloading">Overloading</a>
     and new library APIs.
<li> New low-level format, called 
     <a href="src/GF/Canon/GFCC/doc/gfcc.html">GFCC</a>.
<li> <a href="doc/gf-history.html#gfcc2c">C code generation</a>: 
     for ultimate efficiency with the GFCC format.
<li> <a href="lib/resource-1.0/doc">Resource library version 1.1</a>:
     extensions and bug fixes to 1.0.
</ul>
See <a href="doc/gf-history.html">GF history</a> for more details. 
Download from
<a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132285">SourceForge</a>.


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<i>October 13, 2006</i>.
PhD defence by Janna Khegai at Chalmers. Thesis
<A href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~janna/Janna_Khegai_phd.pdf">
      Language engineering in Grammatical Framework (GF)</A>.

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<i>June 22, 2006</i>.
Release of GF version 2.6. Highlights:
<ul>
<li> New parser (FCFG)
<li> Resource library version 1.0
</ul>

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<i>March 29, 2006</i>.
<a href="doc/gf-reference.html">GF Quick Reference</a>. Also available in
<a href="doc/gf-reference.pdf">pdf</a>.

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<i>June 21, 2006</i>. GF 2.5 released. Some highlights:
<ul>
<li> Treebank generation and reuse.
<li> Regular expression patterns.
<li> Resource Grammar Library v. 1.0 beta release.
</ul>


<i>January 25, 2006</i>.
<a href="http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~bojohan/exjobb/src/gf.el">Emacs mode for GF</a>, 
written by Johan Bockgård.

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<i>December 22, 2005</i>. GF 2.4 released. Some highlights:
<ul>
<li> Speech input.
<li> Transfer modules.
<li> Probabilistic grammars.
</ul>
See <a href="doc/gf-history.html">GF history</a> for more details. 
Download from
<a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132285">SourceForge</a>.
Also see the <a href="doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial2.html">New Tutorial</a>, 
now up to date for version 2.4.

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<i>December 9, 2005</i>.
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~peb/software.html">
MCFG/GF library for Prolog</a>, by
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~peb/">Peter Ljunglöf</a>.
This means that you can use GF grammars as parts of
Prolog programs (in the same way as in Java and Haskell
before).

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<i>December 8, 2005</i>.
A structured <a href="doc/index.html">Documentation page</a> on GF.

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<i>December 1, 2005</i>.
Publicly accessible
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Language-technology/darcs/GF/doc/darcs.html">
Darcs repository</a>
for latest sources and documents. The snapshots are no longer updated.

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<i>September 22, 2005</i>. 
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/gf/downloads/snapshots/">
Snapshots</a>: latest source and linux binary packages, for testers
and developers. See
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Language-technology/darcs/GF/doc/gf-history.html">GF history</a> for the latest changes.
<br>
<b>Notice</b> (1/12):
Use the
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Language-technology/darcs/GF/doc/darcs.html">
Darcs repository</a> instead!

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<i>July 1, 2005</i>. GF 2.3 released.
Download from
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132285">SourceForge</a>.
The <a href="doc/gf-history.html">GF history</a> lists changes.
The source package on SourceForge also contains a new GUI and some new grammars.

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<i>June 3, 2005</i>. Started a page on
<a href="doc/gf-history.html">history of changes</a>.
These changes will appear soon in releases.

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<i>May 17, 2005</i>. Version 2.2 released. See
<a href="doc/gf2.2-highlights.html">highlights</a>.
Download from
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132285">SourceForge</a>.

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<i>May 12, 2005</i>. GF now has a mailing list, to which you can register
<a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gf-tools-users">here</a>.
GF also has a project page on SourceForge, 
<a
href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/gf-tools">
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gf-tools</a>,
but this page does not yet have much content.

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<i>May 9, 2005</i>.
PhD Thesis by
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~krijo">Kristofer Johannisson</a>:
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~krijo/thesis/thesisA4.pdf">
Formal and Informal Software Specifications</a>.

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<i>March 15, 2005</i>.
Master's thesis by 
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/">Björn Bringert</a> on
<a
href="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d00bring/publ/exjobb/embedded-grammars.pdf">
Embedded grammars</a>:
GF grammars that can be used as parts of Java programs. And a
<a
href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/misc/tramdemo.avi">demo film</a>
of a multimodal dialogue system built with embedded grammars.

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<i>November 9, 2004</i>.
PhD Thesis by
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~peb">Peter Ljunglöf</a>:
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~peb/pubs/p04-PhD-thesis.pdf">
Expressivity and Complexity of the  Grammatical Framework</a>.

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<i>November 8, 2004</i>. GF 2.1 released.
Here are the <a
href="doc/gf2-highlights.html">highlights</a>.
Software available on the <a href="../GF2.0/download/gf-download.html">GF 2.1 Download
Page</a>.
Main novelties in 2.1: 
multiple inheritance of grammar modules, 
speech recognition grammar generation,
lots of bug fixes.
Version 2.0 still available
on the <a href="../GF2.0/download-2.0/gf-download.html">GF 2.0 Download Page</a>.
If you need something from the previous version of the web page, it is
still available:
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/GF1">
GF 1.2</a>.

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