GF News 2004-2007

August 31, 2007. GF Graduate Course organized by GSLT: first module September 13-14 in Gothenburg.

July 8, 2007. GF 2.8 released. Some highlights:

• Resource Grammar Library v 1.2: synopsis.
• New version of tutorial, now with exercises and also as a pdf file,
• new speech formats
• better semantics of variants
• lots of bug fixes

June 27, 2007. GF 2.8 forthcoming next week. Some highlights:

• Resource Grammar Library v 1.2: synopsis.
• new speech formats
• better semantics of variants
• lots of bug fixes

December 22, 2006. GF 2.7 released. Some highlights:

• JavaScript and VoiceXML generation. These together support the generation of a complete dialogue system from grammar.
• Overloading and new library APIs.
• New low-level format, called GFCC.
• C code generation: for ultimate efficiency with the GFCC format.
• Resource library version 1.1: extensions and bug fixes to 1.0.

October 13, 2006. PhD defence by Janna Khegai at Chalmers. Thesis Language engineering in Grammatical Framework (GF).

June 22, 2006. Release of GF version 2.6. Highlights:

• New parser (FCFG)
• Resource library version 1.0

March 29, 2006. GF Quick Reference. Also available in pdf.

June 21, 2006. GF 2.5 released. Some highlights:

• Treebank generation and reuse.
• Regular expression patterns.
• Resource Grammar Library v. 1.0 beta release.

December 22, 2005. GF 2.4 released. Some highlights:

• Speech input.
• Transfer modules.
• Probabilistic grammars.

December 9, 2005. MCFG/GF library for Prolog, by Peter Ljunglöf. This means that you can use GF grammars as parts of Prolog programs (in the same way as in Java and Haskell before).
December 8, 2005. A structured Documentation page on GF.
December 1, 2005. Publicly accessible Darcs repository for latest sources and documents. The snapshots are no longer updated.
September 22, 2005. Snapshots: latest source and linux binary packages, for testers and developers. See GF history for the latest changes.
Notice (1/12): Use the Darcs repository instead!
July 1, 2005. GF 2.3 released. Download from SourceForge. The GF history lists changes. The source package on SourceForge also contains a new GUI and some new grammars.
June 3, 2005. Started a page on history of changes. These changes will appear soon in releases.
May 17, 2005. Version 2.2 released. See highlights. Download from SourceForge.
May 12, 2005. GF now has a mailing list, to which you can register here. GF also has a project page on SourceForge, https://sourceforge.net/projects/gf-tools, but this page does not yet have much content.
May 9, 2005. PhD Thesis by Kristofer Johannisson: Formal and Informal Software Specifications.
March 15, 2005. Master's thesis by Björn Bringert on Embedded grammars: GF grammars that can be used as parts of Java programs. And a demo film of a multimodal dialogue system built with embedded grammars.
November 9, 2004. PhD Thesis by Peter Ljunglöf: Expressivity and Complexity of the Grammatical Framework.
November 8, 2004. GF 2.1 released. Here are the highlights. Software available on the GF 2.1 Download Page. Main novelties in 2.1: multiple inheritance of grammar modules, speech recognition grammar generation, lots of bug fixes. Version 2.0 still available on the GF 2.0 Download Page. If you need something from the previous version of the web page, it is still available: GF 1.2. <7html>