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Grammatical Framework: Programming with Multilingual Grammars
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Aarne Ranta
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#BOOKCOVER
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This is the web page of the book
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- Aarne Ranta,
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//Grammatical Framework: Programming with Multilingual Grammars//,
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CSLI Publications,
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Stanford,
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2011,
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340 pp,
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ISBN-10: 1-57586-626-9 (Paper), 1-57586-627-7 (Cloth).
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==Publisher's information==
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Publisher's web page (look for "Series" -> "CSLI Studies in Computational Linguistics")
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http://www-csli.stanford.edu/pubs/
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==Order==
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Direct order ($32.50 paperback, $70 hardcover):
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http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo12469871.html
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Amazon order USA ($32.50 paperback, $70 hardcover):
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http://www.amazon.com/Grammatical-Framework-Programming-Multilingual-Information/dp/1575866269/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1308585697&sr=8-2
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Amazon order UK (£21 paperback, £45 hardcover):
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grammatical-Framework-Programming-Multilingual-Computational/dp/1575866269/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1315580083&sr=8-6
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==Book description==
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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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==How to cite==
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```
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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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```
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==Table of Contents==
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[Detailed Table of Contents toc-gf-book.txt]
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==Supporting material==
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[Slides ./gf-book-slides.pdf] for teaching the book chapter by chapter.
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[Code examples ./examples]. You can also download the
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complete example set as a compressed tar file,
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[gf-book-examples.tgz gf-book-examples.tgz].
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[GF Web IDE http://www.grammaticalframework.org/demos/gfse/]:
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build grammars in the cloud, without installing GF.
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Demos
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- [on-line translator http://www.grammaticalframework.org:41296/minibar/minibar.html] (Section 7.12)
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- [syntax editor http://www.grammaticalframework.org/demos/resource-api/editor.html] (Section 7.13)
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- [multimodal dialogue system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bfaYHWS6zU] (Section 7.15)
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Other tutorials:
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- [GF Tutorial ../doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial.html]: programmer-oriented,
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covering parts of chapters 2-8
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- [GF Resource Tutorial ../doc/gf-lrec-2010.pdf]: linguist-oriented,
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covering parts of chapters 2-5, 9-10
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[Works mentioned in references http://www.grammaticalframework.org/doc/gf-bibliography.html];
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more download links will be added.
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[Resource Grammar Library API http://www.grammaticalframework.org/lib/doc/synopsis.html]
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[Sources and binaries http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download]
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for GF 3.2, which exactly matches the book.
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GF Home Page: http://www.grammaticalframework.org/
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Author's email: aarne'at'chalmers'dot'se
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Author's home page: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/
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