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GF Resource Grammar Library v. 1.0
Author: Aarne Ranta <aarne (at) cs.chalmers.se>
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The GF Resource Grammar Library defines the basic grammar of
ten languages:
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yet been "officially" released. The release is planned in the end
of June 2006.
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Authors
Inger Andersson and Therese Soderberg (Spanish morphology),
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Wanjiku Ng'ang'a,
Jordi Saludes.
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License
The GF Resource Grammar Library is open-source software licensed under
GNU General Public License. See the file LICENSE for more
details.
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Scope
Coverage, for each language:
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- complete morphology
- lexicon of the ca. 100 most important structural words
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- test lexicon of ca. 300 content words
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- test lexicon of ca. 300 content words (rough equivalents in each language)
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- list of irregular verbs (language-dependent)
- representative fragment of syntax (cf. CLE (Core Language Engine))
- rather flat semantics (cf. Quasi-Logical Form of CLE)
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example collections
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Quick start
Go to the main directory, compile the grammars, and run a test.
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For more examples, see the Overview slides.
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The language independent ground API
This API is accessible by both present and alltenses.
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The following figure gives the dependencies of these modules.
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The documentation of the individual modules:
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Idiom: idiomatic phrases, such as existentials
Structural: a lexicon of structural words
Lexicon: a lexicon of other common words, for test purposes
-Lang: the main module comprising all the others
+Grammar: the main module comprising all but Lexicon
+Lang: the main module comprising both Grammar and Lexicon
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The language-dependent APIs
- ParadigmsDan: Danish lexical paradigms
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- IrregDan: Danish irregular verbs (very incomplete)
- IrregEng: English irregular verbs
- IrregFre: French irregular verbs
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- IrregGer: German irregular verbs
- IrregNor: Norwegian irregular verbs (very incomplete)
- IrregSwe: Swedish irregular verbs
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+This is the structure of each language-dependent top module.
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- Extra: extra constructs implemented in some languages
- ExtraScand: extra constructs in Scandinavian only
- ExtraNor: extra constructs in Norwegian only
- ExtraFin: extra constructs in Finnish only
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- ExtraFre: extra constructs in French only
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- ExtraEng: extra constructs in English only
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Special-purpose APIs
Present
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sufficient for many applications.
Multimodal
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+The API is the same as for the full ground API, but with modified
+linearization types of NP and Adv, and all other categories
+depending on them: an extra field is added to a demonstrative pointing
+gesture. Some functions for constructing demonstratives are provided.
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- Multi: main module for multimodal dialogue systems
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Symbol: symbols and numbers in text
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Using the library
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The compiled version
The simplest way to get the library is to install the precompiled version
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multimodal dialogue applications
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Linking applications to libraries
-Notice, however, that both special-purpose APIs share modules with
-present. It is therefore not a good idea to use them in combination with
-alltenses.
+Typically, open one of
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+GrammarX for just syntax
+LangX for both syntax and a small lexicon
+X (e.g. English) for syntax, lexicon, and language-dependent extensions
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+Usually you also need your own lexicon, and hence have to open
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+ParadigmsX for lexicon-building functions
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It is advisable to use the bare package names in paths pointing to the
libraries. Here is an example, from examples/dialogue/LightsEng.gf:
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export GF_LIB_PATH=/home/aarne/GF/lib
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+The mathematical API shares modules with
+present. It is therefore not a good idea to use it in combination with
+alltenses.
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Using the libraries as top-level grammars
If you have done make in lib/resource-1.0, you will have
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An exception is LangEng. It is actually feasible to parse with
both alltenses/LangEng and present/LangEng - the latter being
-much faster than the former. The -mcfg flag (multiple context-free grammar)
+much faster than the former. The -fcfg flag (fast multiple context-free grammar)
must be used:
- p -lang=LangEng -mcfg -parser=topdown "this man is old"
+ p -lang=LangEng -fcfg "this man is old"
-Parsing with the -mcfg flag takes a few extra seconds the first time during
+Parsing with the -fcfg flag takes a few extra seconds the first time during
each session, but gets faster at later runs.
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+It is also feasible to parse in Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish).
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Example applications
These applications are meand to serve as starting points for
new applications, showing how the libraries can be used in
typical situations.
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Brozeage
The examples/bronzeage
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based on the Swadesh list of 200 words. It is useful for
things like language training.
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Dialogue
The examples/dialogue
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Its purpose is to serve as a prototype for applications in the
TALK project.
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Animals
The examples/animal
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Its purpose is to serve as a prototype for example-based
grammar writing.
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Known bugs and missing components
This bugs should be fixed before the final release of v. 1.0.
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French
-- only direct word order in questions
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- no inverted word order in questions
German
-- no list of irregular verbs
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Spanish
-- no ordinal numbers
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+Swedish
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-Swedish
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More reading
Grammars as Software Libraries. Slides
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