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Grammatical Framework

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Version 2.0

+ +August 4, 2004. +
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News

+ +August 4, 2004. GF 2.0 now released. +Here are the highlights. +Software available on the Download Page. + +

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Older news

+ +April 2, 2004. GF 2.0 beta version now released. +Here are the highlights. +Here is a source package +which also includes documentation and example grammars. +Comments and suggestions welcome! + +
+ +June 25, 2003. GF 1.2 released with updated binaries, sources, +and grammar packages. Here are the highlights. + +
+ +May 25, 2003. +A new version of the grammarian's tutorial, to be used in the +ESSLLI summer school. + +
+ +March 27, 2003. +Gramlets: +GF grammars compiled to Java applets. Try out a GF editor demo. + +
+ +March 27, 2003. GF 1.1 released with updated binaries, sources, +and grammar packages. Here are the highlights. +Version 1.0 is still available as source package. + + +
+ +November 1, 2002. Started web page on +resource grammars. + +
+November 1, 2002. Get GF Zaurus applications +here. + +
+ +September 6, 2002. GF on Sharp Zaurus SL5500 PDA: +picture. +This was made possible by an excellent +Hugs port +for Zaurus. To learn more about Zaurus, read this + +review. + + +

What is GF?

+ +The Grammatical Framework (=GF) is a grammar formalism based on type +theory. It consists of + +The compiler reads +GF grammars from user-provided files, +and the generic grammar processor performs +various tasks with the grammars: + +GF particularly addresses two aspects of grammars: + +GF Version 2.0 adds the aspect of + +GF is open-source software licensed under +GNU General Public License (GPL). + + + +

Examples and demos

+ +Numeral translator: recognizes and generates +numbers from 1 to 999,999 in 80 languages. + +

+ +Letter editor: +write simple letters in English, Finnish, +French, Swedish, and Russian with a few mouse clicks. + +

+ +Resource grammar +library: +basic structures of seven languages +(English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish). +Resource grammars can be used as libraries for writing GF +applications, +but they can also be useful for language training. + + +

Executable programs

+ +GF is available precompiled for +several platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Sun OS. +For more information, see the Download Page. + + +

Source code

+ +The main part of GF is written in +Haskell. + +

+ +The platform-independent graphical user interface is written in +Java. + + +

+ +Here is a +GF source package, which includes a Makefile +for different platforms and Haskell compilers. +The Download Page gives more information on +compiler requirements. + +

+ +Here are some older source packages still available: +GF 1.0, +GF 0.976. + +

Documents

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Projects and events

+ +TALK = Tools for Ambient Linguistic +Knowledge. GF is used in implementing multimodal and multilingual dialogue systems. + +

+ +KeY project on Integrated Deductive +Software Design. GF is used for +authoring informal and formal specifications. + +

+ +An introductory course on GF was given at the +ESSLLI summer school +in Vienna 2003. + + + +

Miscellaneous

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Authors

+ +The +Languge Technology Group. +More details on the + +Authors and Acknowledgements page. + + + + +

Implementation project

+ +Want to become a GF developer? Contact +Aarne Ranta. +Or just get the sources and start hacking. + +
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