AGFLINTRO(1)

NAME
agfl - affix grammars over finite lattices

SYNOPSIS
agfl, agflmaint, agfl-coder, agfl-lexer

DESCRIPTION
The AGFL system is a software system for research and applications in Natural Language Processing, based on the AGFL formalism.

Use the agfl(1) or agflmaint(1) parser generator to compile grammars, written in the AGFL formalism, into parsers. These parsers are stand-alone executables, reading sentences from a file, or prompting the user for input. Output consists either of decorated parse-trees in one of several formats, or of strings as specified by the transduction.

The agfl-lexer lexicon system makes it possible to connect large lexical databases to your AGFL grammars in an efficient way. When necessary, agfl automatically invokes agfl-lexer.

The Grammar Workbench, or gwb for short, is an environment for the comfortable development of AGFL grammars. It is still in development.

WARNING
This AGFL man page information has been extracted from the AGFL documentation and directly from the source code. As AGFL tends to evolve over time, this man pages might not always be up to date.

COPYING
Copyright 2005, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

AGFL is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of these licenses:

The programs (which reside in the "${prefix}/bin" directory) are subject to the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, which can be found in the source package in the file named COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

The libraries (residing in the "${prefix}/lib" directory) and the include files (residing in the "${prefix}/include" directory) are distributed under the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

SEE ALSO
C.H.A. Koster, Affix Grammars for Natural Languages. Technical Report no 91-112, April 1991, Informatics Department, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

AUTHORS
Peter Beinema, Caspar Derksen, Franc Grootjen, Paul Jones, Arjan Knijff, Frank Nusselder, Olaf Seibert, Marc Seutter, Pieter-Paul Spiertz, André Steenveld, Erik J. Verbruggen, Ge Weijers, Arend van Zwol.