WP2 Grammar developer’s tools - M24

Summary of progress

This WP has delivered the GF grammar development infrastructure in anticipated ways, resulting in two IDE's (a cloud-based and an Eclipse-based) and a faster grammar compiler. The WP and its last deliverable have been extended in time to allow for interaction with the MOLTO-Enlarged EU, which was delayed. The skeleton of the final deliverable has been discussed during the 4th Project Meeting.

Highlights

GF 3.3.3: faster compilation of grammars, permitting on-the-fly changes of running translation systems.

GF Cloud-Based IDE: an IDE for beginners, as well as for on-the-fly changes of running translation systems. New features in this year:

• use of GF Resource Grammar Library
• grammar cloning
• sharing grammars on the cloud
• example-based grammar writing

GF-Eclipse plugin: an IDE for power users, with features such as

• large project management
• code cloning
• library browsing
• error highlighting
• support for treebank-based testing

GF Resource Grammar Library has 7 new languages since March 2012: Hindi, Latvian, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi, and Thai. Some MOLTO applications (e.g. the Phrasebook and the Math library) are ported to some of these languages.

RGL support of lexicon building was evaluated in the article by Détrez and Ranta, Smart Paradigms and the Predictability and Complexity of Inflectional Morphology, to appear in EACL 2012.

As a tutorial and reference for GF, a book has been published: Ranta, Grammatical Framework - Programming with Multilingual Grammars, CSLI, Stanford, 2011.

Use of resources in Period 2

Deviations from Annex I

We moved Deliverable 2.3, "User Manual and Best Practices", to Month 27 (due 20 June 2012). The reason is that we want to include the experience from the new kind of users from Be Informed, and the start of the MOLTO enlargement was delayed.