GF Grammar Examples
Author: Aarne Ranta <aarne (at) cs.chalmers.se>
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Here are some examples of GF grammars.


==This directory==

[animal animal/] 
is a small grammar for queries about animals
(``"who chases lions"``). Its aim is demonstrate 
example-based grammar writing using the 
[resource grammar library ../lib/resource-1.0/doc].

[big big/]
grammars built from the resource by extending the 
lexicon with several thousands of words. Still very buggy.

[bronzeage bronzeage/] 
defines a set of grammars using the
[Swadesh list http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Swadesh_List] 
to perform basic communication in eight languages.
It is also another illustration of the use of the
[resource grammar library ../lib/resource-1.0/doc].

[gfcc gfcc/]
shows a small C compiler written in GF.
It is explained in the paper
[Declarative Language Definitions and Code Generation as Linearization ../doc/gfcc.pdf]

[letter letter/]
is a package for love and business letters in six languages.
Its aimed is to illustrate 
multilingual authoring, as shown in this
[demo applet http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~markus/gramlets/letter-applet.html].

[numerals numerals/]
is a set of grammars for number words from 1 to 999,999 in 88
languages. It can also be tested in this
[demo applet http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/gf/translate/].

[stoneage stoneage/] 
is an earlier version of [bronzeage bronzeage/]. 

[tram tram/]
is an illustration of the
[resource grammar library ../lib/resource-1.0/doc],
in particular of multimodal grammars that combine
speech with mouse clicks.


==More examples==

[GF Quick start ../doc/gf-quickstart.html]

[GF Grammarian's Tutorial ../doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial2.html]

[GF resource grammar library ../lib/resource-1.0/doc].