From 8fe119b4cc8975b927a65faa4285861d6134029a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aarne
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:58:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added links to main index.html
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@@ -128,16 +128,38 @@ GF, Grammatical Framework, is a programming language for
multilingual grammar applications. It is
-- a special-purpose language for grammars, like YACC, Bison, Happy, BNFC,
+
- a special-purpose language for grammars, like
+ YACC,
+ Bison,
+ Happy,
+ BNFC,
but not restricted to programming languages
-
- a functional language, like Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scheme, SML,
+
- a functional programming language, like
+ Haskell,
+ Lisp,
+ OCaml,
+ SML,
+ Scheme,
but specialized to grammar writing
-
- a natural language processing framework, like LKB, XLE, Regulus,
+
- 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 different and equipped with different tools
-
- a logical framework, like Agda, Coq, Isabelle,
+
- 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).
@@ -149,8 +171,8 @@ least one, it may help you to get a first idea of what GF is.
GF can be used for building
+
+Here is a talk
+about GF at XRCE,
+14 years later.
Academically, GF has been used in at least ten PhD theses and resulted