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completed Translate grammars for all 8 languages; a Makefile entry for them; updated doc/translation.html. What remains to do is to make the new documentation facilities (GF-driven, in the Documentation modules) available in the Android app, so that the Parse* modules can be retired from translation tasks.

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Work in progress, January 2014
==How to use it==
This is a document about a wide-coverage translation system in GF. If you just want to try it before reading more,
here are the main modes of getting started:
1. **Run on our server.** Forthcoming.
2. **Get an Android app.** Forthcoming.
3. **Compile and run in the shell.** Get the latest GF sources (with darcs or github) and then
- compile and install the GF compiler and library and the C runtime (``pgf-translate``).
- compile the translator:
```
cd GF/lib/src
make Translate8.pgf
```
This will take a long time (ten minutes or more) and will probably require at least 8GB of RAM.
- run the translator
```
pgf-translate Translate8.pgf Phr TranslateEng TranslateSwe
```
with obviously the possibility to vary the source and the target language.
4. To modify the sources, work on the files in
```
GF/lib/src/translator/
```
It is these files that will be explained below.
==GF and the RGL==
GF, Grammatical Framework, was originally designed for the purpose of **multilingual controlled language systems**,
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[translation.png]
//Notice: the current module structure and naming do not yet quite correspond to the description here.//
//Thus currently the top module is "Parse" and contains both "Translate" and "Extensions".//
//The Dictionary module is "Dict", and coincides in the case of English with the monolingual//
//morphological dictionary. However, the more sense distinctions are introduced for the needs//
//of translation, the less adequate it becomes to keep these two together.//
Here is a description of each of the modules:
- **Translate** is the top module, which combines the RGL syntax with syntax extensions and a dictionary.