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<H1>Grammatical Framework: Programming with Multilingual Grammars</H1>
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<FONT SIZE="4"><I>Aarne Ranta</I></FONT><BR>
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This is the web page of the book
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<LI>Aarne Ranta,
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<I>Grammatical Framework: Programming with Multilingual Grammars</I>,
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CSLI Publications,
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Stanford,
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2011,
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ISBN-10: 1-57586-626-9 (Paper), 1-57586-627-7 (Cloth).
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<H2>Publisher's information</H2>
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Forthcoming at <A HREF="http://www-csli.stanford.edu/pubs/">http://www-csli.stanford.edu/pubs/</A>
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Direct order (demonstrably available 15 April 2011):
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<A HREF="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo12469871.html">http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo12469871.html</A>
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Amazon order (may be still not active):
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<A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Grammatical-Framework-Programming-Multilingual-Information/dp/1575866269/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302811905&sr=8-2">http://www.amazon.com/Grammatical-Framework-Programming-Multilingual-Information/dp/1575866269/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302811905&sr=8-2</A>
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<H2>Book description</H2>
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Grammars of natural languages are complex systems, and their
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computer implementation requires both programming skills and
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linguistic knowledge, especially when dealing with other languages
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than English. This book makes such tasks accessible for a wide
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range of programmers. It introduces GF (Grammatical Framework),
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which is a programming language designed for writing grammars, which
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may moreover address several languages in parallel.
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The book shows how to write grammars in GF and use them in applications
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such as tourist phrasebooks, spoken dialogue systems, and natural
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language interfaces. The examples and exercises address several
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languages, and the readers are guided to look at their own languages
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from the computational perspective.
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With an emphasis on good engineering, the book promotes modularity
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and division of labour - in particular, the use of libraries. It
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introduces the GF Resource Grammar Library, which currently addresses
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16 languages. This number is constantly growing due to contributions
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from the international GF community. The library makes it painless to
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build applications and to port them to new languages. The book
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introduces a wide range of such applications, which run on platforms
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ranging from web servers to mobile phones. But the book also gives
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guidance for those readers who want to understand the underlying
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linguistics and implement resource grammars for new languages.
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The book starts with a hands-on tutorial, continues with a selection
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of advanced topics, and ends with a complete reference manual
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of GF. Requiring very little background knowledge, it is accessible
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for second-year students that have experience with computers and an
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interest for languages. At the same time, its novel and advanced
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material makes it interesting for senior researchers in computer science,
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linguistics, and related fields.
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<H2>Publisher's information</H2>
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Forthcoming at <A HREF="http://www-csli.stanford.edu/pubs/">http://www-csli.stanford.edu/pubs/</A>
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<H2>How to cite</H2>
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<PRE>
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@Book{ranta-2011,
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author = {Aarne Ranta},
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title = {{Grammatical Framework:
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Programming with Multilingual Grammars}},
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publisher = {{CSLI Publications}},
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year = {2011},
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address = "Stanford",
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note = "ISBN-10: 1-57586-626-9 (Paper), 1-57586-627-7 (Cloth)"
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}
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</PRE>
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<H2>Table of Contents</H2>
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<A HREF="toc-gf-book.txt">Preliminary Table of Contents</A>
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<H2>Supporting material</H2>
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Slides for teaching the book chapter by chapter are forthcoming.
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The following should be useful before that.
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<LI><A HREF="../doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial.html">GF Tutorial</A>: programmer-oriented,
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covering parts of chapters 2-8
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<LI><A HREF="../doc/gf-lrec-2010.pdf">GF Resource Tutorial</A>: linguist-oriented,
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covering parts of chapters 2-5, 9-10
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<A HREF="./examples">Code examples</A>
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Demos
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org:41296/minibar/minibar.html">on-line translator</A> (Section 7.12)
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/demos/resource-api/editor.html">syntax editor</A> (Section 7.13)
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bfaYHWS6zU">multimodal dialogue system</A> (Section 7.15)
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</UL>
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<A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/doc/gf-bibliography.html">Works mentioned in references</A>,
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download links to more works forthcoming.
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<A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/lib/doc/synopsis.html">Resource Grammar Library API</A>
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<A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download">Sources and binaries</A>
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for GF 3.2, which exactly matches the book.
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GF Home Page: <A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/">http://www.grammaticalframework.org/</A>
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Author's email: aarne'at'chalmers'dot'se
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Author's home page: <A HREF="http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/">http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/</A>
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