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Grammatical Framework Bibliography
Aarne Ranta
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==Publications on GF==

In reverse temporal order:

A. Ranta.
The GF Resource Grammar Library,
to appear in the on-line journal //Linguistics in Language Technology//,
2009.
#BR
//A systematic presentation of the library from the linguistic point of view.//

A. Ranta.
Grammatical Framework: A Multilingual Grammar Formalism, 
//Language and Linguistics Compass//, 
Vol. 3, [on-line http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/linguistics/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dlnco-computational&sortby=date&section=lnco-computational&browse_id=lnco_articles_bpl155&article_id=lnco_articles_bpl155]
2009.
#BR
//An overview of GF for readers with a general academic brackground.//

A. Ranta and K. Angelov.
Implementing Controlled Languages in GF.
//CNL-2009//,
//CEUR Workshop Proceedings//,
vol. 448,
[on-line http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-448/],
2009.
#BR
//Makes a case for using GF in controlled language implementation, illustrated by Attempto Controlled English ported to French, German, and Swedish.//

A. Ranta. Grammars as Software Libraries.
In Y. Bertot, G. Huet, J-J. Lévy, and G. Plotkin (eds.),
//From Semantics to Computer Science//,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 
pp. 281-308,
2009.
[pdf (preliminary version) http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/libraries-kahn.pdf]
#BR
//Grammar-libraries from the software engineering point of view, with an example application to mathematical language.//

K. Angelov.
Incremental Parsing in Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars.
EACL 2009.
#BR
//Describes the algorithm used in parsing with GF.//

A. Ranta, B. Bringert, and K. Angelov. 
The GF Grammar Development Environment. 
System demo. Proceedings of //EACL-2009//,
2009.
#BR
//An overview of GF from the grammarian's point of view.//
 
B. Bringert, K. Angelov, and A. Ranta. 
Grammatical Framework Web Service,
System demo. Proceedings of //EACL-2009//,
2009.
#BR
//An overview of how to build web services on top of PGF using the Google Web Toolkit.//


A. Ranta and K. Angelov. 
Implementing Controlled Languages in GF,
To appear in the proceedings of //CNL-2009//, LNCS, Springer,
2009.
#BR
//On the use of GF for controlled languages, exemplified by an implementation of Attempto Controlled English then ported to three other language.//

R. Cooper and A. Ranta. 
Natural Languages as Collections of Resources. 
In //Language in Flux: Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change//, 
ed. by R. Cooper and R. Kempson, pp. 109-120. London: College Publications,
2008.
#BR
//The resource grammar idea applied to language learning and evolution.//

Moisés Salvador Meza Moreno and B. Bringert.
Interactive Multilingual Web Applications with Grammatical Framework.
In B. Nordström and A. Ranta (eds), 
//Advances in Natural Language Processing (GoTAL 2008)//, 
LNCS/LNAI 5221, Springer,
2008.
#BR
//Shows how GF compiled to JavaScript is used in dynamic multilingual web pages.//

Peter Ljunglöf and Staffan Larsson. 
A grammar formalism for specifying ISU-based dialogue systems.
In B. Nordström and A. Ranta (eds), 
//Advances in Natural Language Processing (GoTAL 2008)//, 
LNCS/LNAI 5221, Springer,
2008.
[pdf http://www.ling.gu.se/~peb/pubs/LjunglofLarsson-2008a.pdf]
#BR
//Explains how GoDiS dialogue systems are specified by GF grammars.//

K. Angelov.
Type-Theoretical Bulgarian Grammar.
In B. Nordström and A. Ranta (eds), 
//Advances in Natural Language Processing (GoTAL 2008)//, 
LNCS/LNAI 5221, Springer,
2008.
#BR
//Explains the implementation of a Bulgarian resource grammar in GF.//

B. Bringert.
High-precision Domain-specific Interlingua-based Speech Translation
with Grammatical Framework.
//Coling 2008 Workshop on Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications//, 
Manchester, UK, August 23, 
2008.
#BR
//Shows how to build spoken language translators based on GF grammars and their compilation to Nuance.//

A. Ranta.
How predictable is Finnish morphology? An experiment on lexicon construction.
In J. Nivre, M. Dahllöf and B. Megyesi (eds),
//Resourceful Language Technology: Festschrift in Honor of Anna Sågvall Hein//,
University of Uppsala,
2008.
Available from [series homepage http://publications.uu.se/abstract.xsql?dbid=8933]
#BR
//Presents an experiment on smart paradigms in Finnish.//

A. Ranta.
Example-based grammar writing.
To appear in L. Borin and S. Larsson (eds),
Festschrift for Robin Cooper,
2007.
#BR
//Presents and discusses the ideas of grammar composition and example-based grammar writing.//

B. Bringert.
Rapid Development of Dialogue Systems by Grammar Compilation.
//8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue//, 
Antwerp, Belgium, September 1-2, 
2007.
[pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/publ/gf-voicexml/gf-voicexml.pdf]
#BR
//Shows how to build a web-based spoken dialogue system by generating VoiceXML and JavaScript.//

A. El Dada and A. Ranta.
Implementing an Open Source Arabic Resource Grammar in GF.
In M. Mughazy (ed),
//Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX. Papers from the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Kalamazoo, March 26//
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2007.
#BR
//An outline of the Arabic resource grammar project, focusing on linguistic aspects.//

A. El Dada.
Implementation of the Arabic Numerals and their Syntax in GF.
Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources, 
  ACL-2007 Workshop,
June 28, 2007, Prague.
2007.
#BR
//A case study with the resource grammar, focusing on the morphosyntax//
//and agreement of constructions with numerals.//

A. Ranta.
Modular Grammar Engineering in GF.
//Research on Language and Computation//, 
5:133-158, 2007.
Draft available as [pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/multieng3.pdf].
#BR
//Adapts library-based software engineering methods to grammar writing// 
//and introduces the module system of GF.//

A. Ranta.
The GF Grammar Compiler.
//Workshop on New Directions in Type-theoretic Grammars//,
Dublin, August 2007 (ESSLLI workshop).
2007.
[pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/ar-compiler.pdf]
#BR
//Describes the compilation of GF source code to lower-level run-time formats.//

M. Humayoun, H. Hammarström, and A. Ranta.
Urdu Morphology, Orthography and Lexicon Extraction.
//CAASL-2: The Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages//,
July 21-22, 2007, LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute, Stanford University.
2007.
#BR
//Fairly complete open-source Urdu morphology and elemenraty syntax in GF.//

N. Perera and A. Ranta.
Dialogue System Localization with the GF Resource Grammar Library.
//SPEECHGRAM 2007: ACL Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing//,
June 29, 2007, Prague.
2007.
[pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/perera-ranta.pdf]
#BR
//An experiment in porting an in-car dialogue system from two to six languages.// 


B. Bringert.
Speech Recognition Grammar Compilation in Grammatical Framework
//SPEECHGRAM 2007: ACL Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing//,
June 29, 2007, Prague.
2007.
#BR
//Generation of speech recognition language models from GF in several formats:// 
//GSL (Nuance), SRGS, JSGF, and HTK SLF, with embedded semantic interpretation.//

A. Ranta.
Features in Abstract and Concrete Syntax.
//The 2nd International Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars//,
Tartu, 24 May 2007 (NODALIDA workshop).
2007.
[pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/ranta-tfsg2007.pdf]
#BR
//Explores the design choices of incorporating features in a GF-like grammar,//
//with comparisons to feature-based unification grammars.//


O. Caprotti and M. Seppälä.
Multilingual Delivery of Online Tests in mathematics.
Proceedings of Online Educa Berlin 2006. 29 November - 1 December 2006. 
  Berlin, Germany.
2006.
[pdf http://webalt.math.helsinki.fi/content/e16/e301/e785/MultilingualDeliveryofOnlineTestsinMathematics_eng.pdf]
#BR
//This papers shows screenshots of multilingual generation in the//
//WebALT project, using GF and the resource grammar library.//

J. Khegai. 
Language engineering in Grammatical Framework (GF).
Phd thesis, Computer Science, Chalmers University of Technology,
2006.
[pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~janna/Janna_Khegai_phd.pdf]
#BR
//Collection of articles and technical reports on multilingual authoring//
//and the Russian resource grammar.//

B. Bringert and A. Ranta.
A Pattern for Almost Compositional Functions.
//ICFP 2006, The 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, Portland, Oregon, September 18-20, 2006//,
2006.
[pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/publ/composOp/composOp.pdf].
#BR
//A method of generic programming useful for compiler construction//
//and transfer-based translation.//

M. Forsberg, H. Hammarstrom, and A. Ranta.
Morphological Lexicon Extraction from Raw Text Data. 
//FinTAL 2006//, 
Turku, August 23-25, 2006.
Springer LNCS/LNAI 4139,
pp. 488-499,
2006.
#BR
//A method for automatical production of morphological lexica based//
//on inflection engines such as those of GF resource grammar library.//

A. Ranta.
Type Theory and Universal Grammar.
//Philosophia Scientiae, Constructivism: Mathematics, Logic, Philosophy and Linguistics//,
cahier spécial 6,
pp. 115-131,
2006.
#BR
//A philosophical study of the medieval thesis that//
//grammar is the same in all languages and the difference is only in words.//

J. Khegai. 
GF parallel resource grammars and Russian.
In proceedings of ACL2006 
  (The joint conference of the International Committee on Computational 
  Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics) (pp. 475-482),
  Sydney, Australia, July 2006.
#BR
//Gives an outline of the Russian resource grammar project.//

J. Khegai. 
Grammatical Framework (GF) for MT in sublanguage domains. 
Proceedings of 11th Annual conference of the European Association for 
      Machine Translation, , Oslo.
pp. 95-104,
2005.
#BR
//Shows how GF is used in controlled language translation.//



W. Ng'ang'a. 
Multilingual content development for eLearning in Africa. 
eLearning Africa: 1st Pan-African Conference on ICT for Development, 
  Education and Training. 24-26 May 2006, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
2006.
[pdf http://webalt.math.helsinki.fi/content/e16/e301/e583/MultilingualContentDevelopmentforeLearninginAfrica-final1_eng.pdf]
#BR
//Presents a programme for producing educational material in African languages//
//via multilingual generation in GF.//

R. Jonson. 
Generating statistical language models from interpretation grammars in dialogue system. 
In Proceedings of EACL'06, Trento, Italy.
2006.
#BR
//Uses GF grammars to generate statistical language models for speech recognition.//

A. El Dada and A. Ranta.
Arabic Resource Grammar.
//Arabic Language Processing (JETALA)//, 
5-6 June 2006, IERA, Rabat, Morocco,
2006.
#BR
//An outline of the Arabic resource grammar project, focusing on software aspects.//

D. A. Burke and K. Johannisson.
Translating Formal Software Specifications to Natural Language. A Grammar-Based Approach.
In P. Blache, E. Stabler, J. Busquets and R. Moot (eds),
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2005), 
Springer LNAI 3402, 
pp. 51-66, 
2005.
#BR
//A paper explaining how a multilingual GF grammar is completed with//
//Natural Language Generation techniques to improve text quality.//


B. Bringert, R. Cooper, P. Ljunglöf, A. Ranta, 
Multimodal Dialogue System Grammars.
//Proceedings of DIALOR'05, Ninth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Nancy, France, June 9-11, 2005//,
2005.
[pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/publ/mm-grammars-dialor/mm-grammars-dialor.pdf].
#BR
//Shows how mouse clicks can be integrated in GF grammars//
//alongside with speech input.//



K.  Johannisson,
Formal and Informal Software Specifications.
PhD thesis,
Computer Science, Göteborg University, 
2005.
[http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~krijo/thesis/thesisA4.pdf]
#BR
//Collection of articles in the GF-KeY project, with an introduction.//

P. Ljunglöf.
Expressivity and Complexity of the  Grammatical Framework.
PhD thesis, Computer Science, 
Göteborg University, 
2004.
[pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~peb/pubs/p04-PhD-thesis.pdf]
#BR
//Language-theoretical study of GF and its parsing problem.//

A. Ranta.
Grammatical Framework: A Type-Theoretical Grammar Formalism.
//Journal of Functional Programming//, 14(2),
pp. 145-189, 
2004.
Draft available as [ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/gf-jfp.ps.gz].
#BR
//Theoretical paper explaining the GF formalism and its implementation.//
//The standard reference on GF, but doesn't cover the module system.//


A. Ranta.
Computational semantics in type theory.
//Mathematics and Social Sciences//, 165,
pp. 31-57, 
2004.
Draft available as [pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/3formsem.pdf].
#BR
// Shows how Montague-style grammars are implemented in GF and extends//
//this to type-theoretical grammars for anaphoric expressions.//

H. Hammarström and A. Ranta.
Cardinal Numerals Revisited in GF.
//Workshop on Numerals in the World's Languages//. 
Dept. of Linguistics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig,
2004.
#BR
//An overview of the numeral grammar project, covering 88 languages.//


A. Ranta.
Grammatical Framework Tutorial.
In A. Beckmann and N. Preining, editors, 
//ESSLLI 2003 Course Material I//, 
//Collegium Logicum//, 
volume V,
pp. 1-86. 
Kurt Gödel Society, 
Vienna,
2004.
#BR
//A revised version of the on-line GF tutorial, v1.0.//


J. Khegai and A. Ranta.
Building and Using a Russian Resource Grammar in GF.
In A. Gelbukh (ed), 
//Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2004)//, 
Seoul, Korea, February 2003,
Springer LNCS 945, 
pp. 38-41,
2004.
[ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/mexico.ps.gz].
#BR
//An introduction to the GF resource grammar project, with Russian as prime example.//


A. Ranta and R. Cooper.
Dialogue Systems as Proof Editors.
 //Journal of Logic, Language and Information//, 13,
pp. 225-240, 
2004.
Conference version (IJCAR/ICoS-3, Siena, June 2001) available as
  [ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/dialogue3.ps.gz].
//Shows a close analogy between task-oriented dialogue systems//
//and metavariable-based proof editors.//


J. Khegai and A. Ranta.
Building and Using a Russian Resource Grammar in GF.
In A. Gelbukh (ed), 
//Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2004)//, 
Seoul, Korea, February 2003,
Springer LNCS 945, 
pp. 38-41,
2004.
[ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/mexico.ps.gz].
#BR
//Explains how the GF GUI is used in syntax editing and discusses//
//how new grammars are created.//


R. Hähnle, K. Johannisson, and A. Ranta.
An Authoring Tool for Informal and Formal Requirements Specifications.
In R. D. Kutsche and H. Weber (eds),
//ETAPS/FASE-2002: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering//,
Springer LNCS, 
vol. 2306,
pp. 233--248, 
2002.
[pdf http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~krijo/GF/FASE.pdf]
#BR
//Describes a GF-based authoring tool for object-oriented//
//specifications in OCL and English. Carries out in full//
//the work proposed in the position paper (Hähnle & Ranta 2001).//



K. Johannisson and A.Ranta,
Formal Verification of Multilingual Instructions.
//Proceedings of the Joint Winter Meeting 2001//.
Departments of Computer Science and Computer Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University.
2001.
[ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/aarne+krijo.ps.gz].
#BR
//Instructions for an alarm system in four languages, verified in the proof editor Alfa.//


R. Hähnle and A. Ranta,
Connecting OCL with the Rest of the World.
//ETAPS 2001 Workshop on Transformations in UML (WTUML)//, 
Genova, 
2001.
[ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~reiner/papers/wtuml.ps.gz].
#BR
//A position paper explaining how GF can be used to help in object-oriented//
//modelling, with some examples on natural-language interaction with//
//OCL (Object Constraint Language)//.



T. Hallgren, "The Correctness of Insertion Sort",
Manuscript, Chalmers University, Göteborg, 2001.
Available in
[ps http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Papers/insertion_sort.ps]
#BR
//A seven-page text generated by GF-Alfa//.


A. Ranta. "Bescherelle bricolé",
[ps.gz ../../GF2.0/doc/BeschBric.ps.gz], 
2001.
#BR
//A machine-generated book on French conjugation implemented in GF.//


T. Hallgren and A. Ranta,
An Extensible Proof Text Editor.
In M. Parigot and A. Voronkov (eds),
//Logic for Programming and Automated Reasoning (LPAR'2000)//,
LNCS/LNAI 1955, 
pp. 70-84,
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 
2000.
[ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/lpar2000.ps.gz].
#BR
//Describes an interface to the proof editor Alfa written in GF//.


M. Dymetman, V. Lux, and A. Ranta,
XML and multilingual document authoring: converging trends.
//Proceedings of the The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000)//,
pp. 243-249,
Saarbruecken, 
2000.
[ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/coling2000.ps.gz].
#BR
//Relates GF not only with XML but also with definite clause grammars//.



P. Mäenpää and A. Ranta.
The type theory and type checker of GF.
//Colloquium on Principles, Logics, and Implementations of High-Level Programming Languages, Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages, Paris, 28 September 1999//.
1999. 
[ps.gz href=http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/papers/lfm1999.ps.gz].
#BR
//Concise theoretical presentation of GF, using the old notation prior to v0.9//.








==Background for GF==

In alphabetical order:



L. Magnusson.
//The Implementation of ALF - a Proof Editor based on Martin-Löf's//
//Monomorphic Type Theory with Explicit Substitutions//.
PhD Thesis, Department of Computing Science,
Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University,
1994.
#BR
//Back in 1992 the most wonderful program in the world, ALF is//
//a model that GF directly follows: GF is Yet ALF.//



P. Martin-Löf.
//Intuitionistic Type Theory//.
Bibliopolis, Naples, 1984.
#BR
//A very accessible book (if you have access to it!) on type theory directly from the source.//



B. Nordström, K. Petersson, and J. Smith.
//Programming in Martin-Löf's Type Theory: an Introduction//.
Oxford University Press, 1990.
 The book is out of print, but a free version can be picked up from
[www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Logic/book/ http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Logic/book/]
#BR
//Standard reference on the subject//.


A. Ranta.
//Type Theoretical Grammar//.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 
1994.
#BR
//Monograph on type theory in linguistics. Includes an introduction//
//to type theory. Focused on semantics, in particular anaphora. A first,// 
//very rudimentary implementation of linearization in the proof system ALF.//


A. Ranta.
Syntactic categories in the language of mathematics.
In P. Dybjer, B. Nordström, and J. Smith, eds.,
//Types for Proofs and Programs//, 
pp. 162-182,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
996,  
Springer-Verlag, 
Heidelberg, 
1995.
[ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/baastad.ps.gz]
#BR
//Predecessor of GF: grammar defined in type theory and implemented in ALF//. 

A. Ranta.
Context-relative syntactic categories and the formalization of mathematical text.
In S. Berardi and M. Coppo, eds.,
//Types for Proofs and Programs//, 
pp. 231-248,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 
1158, 
Springer-Verlag, 
Heidelberg, 
1996.
[ps.gz http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/articles/torino.ps.gz].
#BR
//Extending the theory of the previous paper. The implementation in ALF// 
//eventually became so heavy that the need arose for GF.//


A. Ranta.
Structures grammaticales dans le français mathématique. 
//Mathématiques, informatique et Sciences Humaines.//,
vol. 138 pp. 5-56 and 139 pp. 5-36, 
1997.
#BR
//A rather comprehensive French grammar presented in a type-theoretical style.//


A. Ranta.
 Syntactic calculus with dependent types.
 //Journal of Logic, Language and Information//, vol. 4,
  pp. 413-431, 1998.
#BR
//Interprets Lambek Calculus in type theory and defines some extensions//.