GF Resource Grammar Library v. 1.0
Author: Aarne Ranta <aarne (at) cs.chalmers.se>
Last update: Fri Jan 20 18:02:22 2006
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 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.
The documentation of the individual modules:
- Cat: the category system
- Noun: construction of nouns and noun phrases
- Adjective: construction of adjectival phrases
- Verb: construction of verb phrases
- Adverb: construction of adverbial phrases
- Numeral: construction of cardinal and ordinal numerals
- Sentence: construction of sentences and imperatives
- Question: construction of questions
- Relative: construction of relative clauses
- Conjunction: coordination of phrases
- Phrase: construction of the major units of text and speech
- Structural: a lexicon of structural words
- Basic: a lexicon of other common words, for test purposes
- Lang: the main module comprising all the others
The language-dependent APIs