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+GF Project Ideas
+Resource Grammars, Web Applications, etc
+contact: Aarne Ranta (aarne at chalmers dot se)
+
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+#BECE
+[Logos/gf0.png]
+#ENCE
+
+
+==Resource Grammar Implementations==
+
+GF Resource Grammar Library is an open-source computational grammar resource
+that currently covers 12 languages.
+The Library is a collaborative effort to which programmers from many countries
+have contributed. The next goal is to extend the library 
+to all of the 23 official EU languages. Also other languages
+are welcome all the time. The following diagram show the current status of the
+library. Each of the red and yellow ones are a potential project.
+
+#BECE
+[school-langs.png]
+#ENCE
+
+
+//red=wanted, green=exists, orange=in-progress, solid=official-eu, dotted=non-eu//
+
+The linguistic coverage of the library includes the inflectional morphology
+and basic syntax of each language. It can be used in GF applications
+and also ported to other formats. It can also be used for building other
+linguistic resources, such as morphological lexica and parsers.
+The library is licensed under LGPL.
+
+
+===Tasks===
+
+Writing a grammar for a language is usually easier if other languages
+from the same family already have grammars. The colours have the same
+meaning as in the diagram above; in addition, we use boldface for the
+red, still unimplemented languages and italics for the
+orange languages in progress. Thus, in particular, each of the languages
+coloured red below are possible programming projects.
+
+Baltic:
+- #RED Latvian #ERED
+- #RED Lithuanian #ERED
+
+
+Celtic: 
+- #RED Irish #ERED
+
+
+Fenno-Ugric: 
+- #RED Estonian #ERED 
+- #GRAY Finnish #EGRAY 
+- #RED Hungarian #ERED
+
+
+Germanic: 
+- #GRAY Danish #EGRAY
+- #RED Dutch #ERED
+- #GRAY English #EGRAY
+- #GRAY German #EGRAY
+- #GRAY Norwegian #EGRAY
+- #GRAY Swedish #EGRAY
+
+
+Hellenic:
+- #RED Greek #ERED
+
+
+Indo-Iranian:
+- #YELLOW Hindi #EYELLOW
+- #YELLOW Urdu #EYELLOW
+
+
+Romance:
+- #GRAY Catalan #EGRAY
+- #GRAY French #EGRAY
+- #GRAY Italian #EGRAY
+- #RED Portuguese #ERED
+- #YELLOW Romanian #EYELLOW
+- #GRAY Spanish #EGRAY
+
+
+Semitic:
+- #YELLOW Arabic #EYELLOW
+- #RED Maltese #ERED
+
+
+Slavonic:
+- #GRAY Bulgarian #EGRAY
+- #RED Czech #ERED
+- #YELLOW Polish #EYELLOW
+- #GRAY Russian #EGRAY
+- #RED Slovak #ERED
+- #RED Slovenian #ERED
+
+
+Tai:
+- #YELLOW Thai #EYELLOW
+
+
+Turkic:
+- #YELLOW Turkish #EYELLOW
+
+
+===Who is qualified===
+
+Writing a resource grammar implementation requires good general programming
+skills, and a good explicit knowledge of the grammar of the target language. 
+A typical participant could be 
+- native or fluent speaker of the target language
+- interested in languages on the theoretical level, and preferably familiar
+  with many languages (to be able to think about them on an abstract level)
+- familiar with functional programming languages such as ML or Haskell
+  (GF itself is a language similar to these)
+- on Master's or PhD level in linguistics, computer science, or mathematics
+
+
+But it is the quality of the assignment that is assessed, not any formal
+requirements. The "typical participant" was described to give an idea of
+who is likely to succeed in this.
+
+
+===The Summer School===
+
+A Summer School on resource grammars and applications will
+be organized at the campus of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg,
+Sweden, on 17-28 August 2009. It can be seen as a natural checkpoint in 
+a resource grammar project; the participants are assumed to learn GF before
+the Summer School, but how far they have come in their projects may vary.
+
+More information on the Summer School web page:
+
+[``http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Language-technology/GF/doc/gf-summerschool.html`` http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Language-technology/GF/doc/gf-summerschool.html]
+
+
+==Other project ideas==
+
+===GF interpreter in Java===
+
+The idea is to write a run-time system for GF grammars in Java. This enables
+the use of **embedded grammars** in Java applications. This project is
+a fresh-up of [earlier work http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/gf/gf-java.html],
+now using the new run-time format PGF and addressing a new parsing algorithm.
+
+Requirements: Java, Haskell, basics of compilers and parsing algorithms.
+
+
+===GF interpreter in C#===
+
+The idea is to write a run-time system for GF grammars in C#. This enables
+the use of **embedded grammars** in C# applications. This project is
+similar to [earlier work http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/gf/gf-java.html]
+on Java, now addressing C# and using the new run-time format PGF.
+
+Requirements: C#, Haskell, basics of compilers and parsing algorithms.
+
+
+===GF localization library===
+
+This is an idea for a software localization library using GF grammars.
+The library should replace strings by grammar rules, which can be conceived
+as very smart templates always guaranteeing grammatically correct output.
+The library should be based on the 
+[GF Resource Grammar Library http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Language-technology/GF/lib/resource/doc/synopsis.html], providing infrastructure
+currently for 12 languages.
+
+Requirements: GF, some natural languages, some localization platform
+
+
+===Multilingual grammar applications for mobile phones===
+
+GF grammars can be compiled into programs that can be run on different 
+platforms, such as web browsers and mobile phones. An example is a
+[numeral translator http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Language-technology/GF/demos/index-numbers.html] running on both these platforms.
+
+The proposed project is rather open: find some cool applications of 
+the technology that are useful or entertaining for mobile phone users. A 
+part of the project is to investigate implementation issues such as making 
+the best use of the phone's resources. Possible applications have 
+something to do with translation; one suggestion is an sms editor/translator.
+
+Requirements: GF, JavaScript, some phone application development tools
+
+
+===Multilingual grammar applications for the web===
+
+This project is rather open: find some cool applications of 
+the technology that are useful or entertaining on the web. Examples include
+- translators: see  [demo http://129.16.250.57:41296/translate]
+- multilingual wikis: see [demo http://csmisc14.cs.chalmers.se/~meza/restWiki/wiki.cgi]
+- fridge magnets: see  [demo http://129.16.250.57:41296/fridge]
+
+
+Requirements: GF, JavaScript or Java and Google Web Toolkit, CGI
+
+
+===GMail gadget for GF===
+
+It is possible to add custom gadgets to GMail. If you are going to write 
+e-mail in a foreign language then you probably will need help from 
+dictonary or you may want to check something in the grammar. GF provides 
+all resources that you may need but you have to think about how to 
+design gadget that fits well in the GMail environment and what 
+functionality from GF you want to expose.
+
+Requirements: GF, Google Web Toolkit
+
+
+
+==Dissemination and intellectual property==
+
+All code suggested here will be released under the LGPL just like 
+the current resource grammars and run-time GF libraries,
+with the copyright held by respective authors.
+
+As a rule, the code will be distributed via the GF web site.
+