ANNOUNCE: GenI 0.17.4 (TAG Natural Language Generator)

[Eric Kow]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to announce the recent 0.17.4 release of the GenI surface
realiser.  Recent changes at the end of this message.

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/GenI

A surface realiser is a useful component in a natural language
generation or dialogue system.  It acts like a parser, except backwards.
That is, it takes a grammar and a word graph as input, and use the rules
of the grammar to put the words in a linear order.  You can think of
this as translating from some low-level semantic representation to
strings.

One interesting property of GenI is that it uses a reversible Tree
Adjoining Grammar, reversible meaning that the generator can be used for
both parsing and generation.  Another property you may be interested in
is that you can use it both as a standalone program or as a library.

GenI was originally written by Carlos Areces in 2003; I took it over in
2004 and worked on it until 2007.  This release of GenI represents the
surface realiser at the end of my thesis, along some cosmetic changes to
make it a little bit easier to install ('cabal install GenI' should
work) and to use.

Enjoy!

Eric

PS. Welcome to our newest Haskell NLP members!

PPS. Among other things, I would like to recommend using this mailing
list for making these kinds of announcements.  One, you get a *targeted*
audience, people who are specifically interested in both Haskell and
NLP.  Two, you you get a *smaller* audience, which may be nice if you
have a research prototype you want to share without inflicting it on the
wider Haskell community.

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More information about GenI
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Latest release:
  http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/GenI
Homepage:
  http://projects.haskell.org/GenI
Wiki:
  http://trac.haskell.org/GenI/
Mailing list:
  http://websympa.loria.fr/wwsympa/arc/geni-users

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Recent Changes
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GenI 0.17.4, 6 Apr 2009
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* GHC 6.6 support

* GUI disabled by default

GenI 0.17.3, 3 Apr 2009
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* Simplified build method
  * one single cabal package instead of two
  * cabal configure -f-gui to disable GUI
  * makefile stripped out

* Lexical selection on empty semantics now allowed
  * This is so that the zero-literal semantics mechanism can work again

* Better help text

* Baked-in unit testing (geni --unit-test)

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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