GF Resource Grammar Library v. 1.0
Author: Aarne Ranta <aarne (at) cs.chalmers.se>
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**Notice**. This document concerns the API v. 1.0 which has not
yet been "officially" released. You can find the beginnings of it
in [``GF/lib/resource-1.0/`` ..]. See the
[``resource-1.0/README`` ../README] for
details on how it differs from previous versions
and how much has been implemented



==The language independent API==

The API is divided into a bunch of ``abstract`` modules.
The following figure gives the dependencies of these modules.

[Lang.png] 

The documentation of the individual modules:

- [Cat gfdoc/Cat.html]: the category system
- [Tense gfdoc/Tense.html]: tense, anteriority, and polarity values
- [Noun gfdoc/Noun.html]: construction of nouns and noun phrases
- [Adjective gfdoc/Adjective.html]: construction of adjectival phrases
- [Verb gfdoc/Verb.html]: construction of verb phrases
- [Adverb gfdoc/Adverb.html]: construction of adverbial phrases
- [Numeral gfdoc/Numeral.html]: construction of cardinal and ordinal numerals
- [Sentence gfdoc/Sentence.html]: construction of sentences and imperatives
- [Question gfdoc/Question.html]: construction of questions
- [Relative gfdoc/Relative.html]: construction of relative clauses
- [Conjunction gfdoc/Conjunction.html]: coordination of phrases
- [Phrase gfdoc/Phrase.html]: construction of the major units of text and speech
- [Structural gfdoc/Structural.html]: a lexicon of structural words
- [Lexicon gfdoc/Lexicon.html]: a lexicon of other common words, for test purposes
- [Lang gfdoc/Lang.html]: the main module comprising all the others


==The language-dependent APIs==

- [ParadigmsEng gfdoc/ParadigmsEng.html]: English lexical paradigms
- [ParadigmsFin gfdoc/ParadigmsFin.html]: Finnish lexical paradigms
- [ParadigmsFre gfdoc/ParadigmsFre.html]: French lexical paradigms
- [ParadigmsIta gfdoc/ParadigmsIta.html]: Italian lexical paradigms
- [ParadigmsGer gfdoc/ParadigmsGer.html]: German lexical paradigms
- [ParadigmsNor gfdoc/ParadigmsNor.html]: Norwegian lexical paradigms
- [ParadigmsSpa gfdoc/ParadigmsSpa.html]: Spanish lexical paradigms
- [ParadigmsSwe gfdoc/ParadigmsSwe.html]: Swedish lexical paradigms



- [IrregEng gfdoc/IrregEng.gf]: English irregular verbs
- [IrregFre gfdoc/IrregFre.gf]: French irregular verbs
% - [IrregGer gfdoc/IrregGer.gf]: German irregular verbs
- [IrregNor gfdoc/IrregNor.gf]: Norwegian irregular verbs
- [IrregSwe gfdoc/IrregSwe.gf]: Swedish irregular verbs


==Special-purpose APIs==

===Multimodal===

- [Multimodal gfdoc/Multimodal.html]: main module for multimodal dialogue systems
- [Demonstrative gfdoc/Demonstrative.html]: demonstrative noun phrases and adverbs


===Mathematical===

- [Mathematical gfdoc/Mathematical.html]: main module for mathematical language
- [Predication gfdoc/Predication.html]: predication with verbs, adjectives, etc
- [Symbol gfdoc/Symbol.html]: symbols and numbers in text