From 057c5132edf949e2a4b8d5c2a8368f3f3df12c5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aarne
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:58:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] lib index
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lib/resource-1.0/doc/index.html | 135 +++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/resource-1.0/doc/index.html b/lib/resource-1.0/doc/index.html
index f0b6da1e0..ff9cb8911 100644
--- a/lib/resource-1.0/doc/index.html
+++ b/lib/resource-1.0/doc/index.html
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
GF Resource Grammar Library v. 1.0
Author: Aarne Ranta <aarne (at) cs.chalmers.se>
-Last update: Tue Jun 20 18:40:08 2006
+Last update: Wed Jun 21 18:21:48 2006
@@ -18,25 +18,26 @@ Last update: Tue Jun 20 18:40:08 2006
License
Scope
Quick start
+ Encoding
- Using the library
+ Using the library
- Example applications
+ Example applications
- Known bugs and missing components
- More reading
+ Known bugs and missing components
+ More reading
@@ -52,9 +53,8 @@ Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
New: User manual of the resource library.
-Notice. This document concerns the API v. 1.0 which has not
-yet been "officially" released. The release is planned in the end
-of June 2006.
+Notice. This document concerns the API v. 1.0 released
+on June 22, 2006.
Authors
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ Inger Andersson and Therese Soderberg (Spanish morphology),
Nicolas Barth and Sylvain Pogodalla (French verb list),
Janna Khegai (Russian modules),
Bjorn Bringert (many Swadesh lexica),
-Carlos Gonzalia (Spanish cardinals),
-Harald Hammarstrom (German morphology),
+Carlos Gonzalía (Spanish cardinals),
+Harald Hammarström (German morphology),
Patrik Jansson (Swedish cardinals),
Andreas Priesnitz (German lexicon),
Aarne Ranta.
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Coverage, for each language:
complete morphology
lexicon of the ca. 100 most important structural words
test lexicon of ca. 300 content words (rough equivalents in each language)
-list of irregular verbs (language-dependent)
+list of irregular verbs (separately for each language)
representative fragment of syntax (cf. CLE (Core Language Engine))
rather flat semantics (cf. Quasi-Logical Form of CLE)
@@ -142,8 +142,7 @@ Go to the main directory, compile the grammars, and run a test.
This will take quite some time. An alternative is to use the
precompiled grammar package compiled.tgz.
-This package
-has the necessary gfc and gfr files directly under GF/lib.
+This package has the necessary gfc and gfr files directly under GF/lib.
GF/lib/alltenses
@@ -164,6 +163,17 @@ Do for instance
For more examples, see the Overview slides.
+Encoding
+
+Finnish, German, Romance, and Scandinavian languages are in isolatin-1.
+
+
+Russian is in UTF-8.
+
+
+English is in pure ASCII.
+
+
The language independent ground API
This API is accessible by both present and alltenses.
@@ -197,7 +207,7 @@ The documentation of the individual modules:
Lang: the main module comprising both Grammar and Lexicon
-
+
The language-dependent APIs
- ParadigmsDan: Danish lexical paradigms
@@ -213,12 +223,13 @@ The documentation of the individual modules:
-- IrregDan: Danish irregular verbs (very incomplete)
-
- IrregEng: English irregular verbs
-
- IrregFre: French irregular verbs
-
- IrregGer: German irregular verbs
-
- IrregNor: Norwegian irregular verbs (very incomplete)
-
- IrregSwe: Swedish irregular verbs
+
- IrregDan: Danish irregular verbs (very incomplete)
+
- IrregEng: English irregular verbs
+
- IrregFre: French irregular verbs
+
- IrregGer: German irregular verbs
+
- IrregNor: Norwegian irregular verbs (very incomplete)
+
- IrregSpa: Spanish irregular verbs
+
- IrregSwe: Swedish irregular verbs
@@ -229,23 +240,32 @@ This is the structure of each language-dependent top module.
- Extra: extra constructs implemented in some languages
-
- ExtraEng: extra constructs in English only
-
- ExtraFin: extra constructs in Finnish only
-
- ExtraFre: extra constructs in French only
-
- ExtraNor: extra constructs in Norwegian only
-
- ExtraScand: extra constructs in Scandinavian only
+
- ExtraDan: extra constructs in Danish
+
- ExtraEng: extra constructs in English
+
- ExtraFin: extra constructs in Finnish
+
- ExtraFre: extra constructs in French
+
- ExtraIta: extra constructs in Italian
+
- ExtraNor: extra constructs in Norwegian
+
- ExtraRus: extra constructs in Russian
+
- ExtraScand: extra constructs in Scandinavian
+
- ExtraSpa: extra constructs in Spanish
+
- ExtraSwe: extra constructs in Swedish
-
+
Special-purpose APIs
Present
@@ -273,9 +293,9 @@ gesture. Some functions for constructing demonstratives are provided.
Symbol: symbols and numbers in text
-
-Using the library
+Using the library
+
The compiled version
The simplest way to get the library is to install the precompiled version
@@ -297,7 +317,7 @@ library. Use one (or several) of the following packages instead:
multimodal dialogue applications
-
+
Linking applications to libraries
Typically, open one of
@@ -336,7 +356,7 @@ The mathematical API shares modules with
present. It is therefore not a good idea to use it in combination with
alltenses.
-
+
Using the libraries as top-level grammars
If you have done make in lib/resource-1.0, you will have
@@ -367,27 +387,30 @@ must be used:
Parsing with the -fcfg flag takes a few extra seconds the first time during
-each session, but gets faster at later runs.
+each session, but gets faster at later runs. From GF 2.6, fcfg is the
+default parser of GF and the flag is not needed.
-It is also feasible to parse in Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish).
+It is also possible to parse in Scandinavian languages
+(Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) and, with enough memory (gf +RTS -K512M),
+German.
-
+
Example applications
These applications are meant to serve as starting points for
new applications, showing how the libraries can be used in
typical situations.
-
-Brozeage
+
+Bronzeage
The examples/bronzeage
grammar set implements a language fragment
based on the Swadesh list of 200 words. It is useful for
things like language training.
-
+
Dialogue
The examples/dialogue
@@ -396,7 +419,7 @@ multimodal dialogue system.
Its purpose is to serve as a prototype for applications in the
TALK project.
-
+
Animals
The examples/animal
@@ -404,7 +427,7 @@ grammar set implements some queries about animals.
Its purpose is to serve as a prototype for example-based
grammar writing.
-
+
Known bugs and missing components
Danish
@@ -416,10 +439,6 @@ Danish
English
-
-
Finnish
@@ -431,22 +450,17 @@ Finnish
French
-- no inverted word order in questions
- multiple clitics (with V3) not always right
+
- no pronominal questions with inverted word order
German
-
-
Italian
-- no contraction of infinitives before clitics
- multiple clitics (with V3) not always right
@@ -470,16 +484,13 @@ Spanish
- multiple clitics (with V3) not always right
+
- missing contractions with imperatives and clitics
Swedish
-
-
-
+
More reading
GF Resource Grammar Library (pdf).