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+
+\title{{\Large \bf Building Natural-Language Applications in GF}}
+
+\author{Aarne Ranta}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\maketitle
+
+
+
+\chapter*{Introduction}
+
+This book is written for programmers who want to build 
+natural-language applications without first having to acquire
+professional training in linguistics. The aim with making this
+happen is to make natural-language applications more wide-spread
+and to improve their quality. The tool that makes this possible
+is the Grammatical Framework, GF.
+
+There are many reasons why natural-language applications are not
+common. One reason is that they are difficult to build. No-one has
+ever managed to write a program that correctly recognizes arbitrary 
+natural-language input in any language
+
+
+GF is a special-purpose programming language for writing grammars.
+Programs written in GF are called grammars. A grammar is a declarative
+description of a language, which can be a natural language (like
+English or Finnish) or a formal language (like C or predicate logic).
+
+
+
+
+
+\chapter{Building a Phrase Book}
+
+\chapter{Using a Linguistic Resource}
+
+
+
+
+
+\bibliographystyle{plain}
+
+\bibliography{gf-bib}
+
+
+\end{document}