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DESCRIPTION ![GF Logo](doc/Logos/gf1.svg)
The Grammatical Framework (=GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory. # Grammatical Framework (GF)
It consists of
* a special-purpose programming language [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/GrammaticalFramework/GF.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/GrammaticalFramework/GF)
* a compiler of the language
* a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the The Grammatical Framework is a grammar formalism based on type theory.
It consists of:
- a special-purpose programming language
- a compiler of the language
- a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the
generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars: generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
* generation - generation
* parsing - parsing
* translation - translation
* type checking - type checking
* computation - computation
* paraphrasing - paraphrasing
* random generation - random generation
* syntax editing - syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars: GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
* multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages) - multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
* semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic - semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic properties of expressions)
properties of expressions) - grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
* grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries) - embeddability in programs written in other languages (C, C++, Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
* embeddability in programs written in other languages (C,C++,
Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
COMPILATION and INSTALLATION of source distribution: COMPILATION and INSTALLATION of source distribution:
See download/index.html for installation instructions. See [download/index.html](download/index.html) for installation instructions.
(More details can be found in doc/gf-developers.html.) More details can be found in [doc/gf-developers.html](doc/gf-developers.html).