gf: Grammatical Framework
GF, Grammatical Framework, is a programming language for multilingual grammar applications
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Modules
- GF
- Grammar
- GF.Grammar.Canonical
- GF.Support
- Text
- GF.Text.Lexing
- GF.Text.Pretty
- Grammar
- PGF
- PGF.Haskell
- PGF.Internal
- PGF2
Flags
Automatic Flags
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| interrupt | Enable Ctrl+Break in the shell | Enabled |
| server | Include --server mode | Enabled |
| network-uri | Get Network.URI from the network-uri package | Enabled |
| c-runtime | Include functionality from the C run-time library (which must be installed already) | Disabled |
Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info
Downloads
- gf-3.12.0.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (as included in the package)
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Candidates
| Versions [RSS] | 3.1.6, 3.1.6.1, 3.1.6.2, 3.2, 3.2.9, 3.3, 3.3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.7.1, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.11.0, 3.12.0 (info) |
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| Change log | CHANGELOG.md |
| Dependencies | array (>=0.5.1 && <0.6), base (>=4.9.1 && <4.22), bytestring (>=0.10.8 && <0.12), cgi (>=3001.3.0.2 && <3001.6), containers (>=0.5.7 && <0.7), directory (>=1.3.0 && <1.4), exceptions (>=0.8.3 && <0.11), fail (>=4.9.0 && <4.10), filepath (>=1.4.1 && <1.5), gf, ghc-prim (>=0.5.0 && <=0.10.0), haskeline (>=0.7.3 && <0.9), httpd-shed (>=0.4.0 && <0.5), json (>=0.9.1 && <=0.11), mtl (>=2.2.1 && <=2.3.1), network (>=2.5 && <3.2), network-uri (>=2.6.1.0 && <2.7), parallel (>=3.2.1.1 && <3.3), pretty (>=1.1.3 && <1.2), process (>=1.4.3 && <1.7), random (>=1.1 && <1.3), template-haskell (>=2.13.0.0 && <2.21), terminfo (>=0.4.0 && <0.5), time (>=1.6.0 && <=1.12.2), transformers-compat (>=0.6.3 && <0.7), unix (>=2.7.2 && <2.9), utf8-string (>=1.0.1.1 && <1.1), Win32 (>=2.3.1.1 && <2.7) [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==7.10.3, ghc ==8.0.2, ghc ==8.10.4, ghc ==9.0.2, ghc ==9.2.4, ghc ==9.6.7 |
| License | LicenseRef-OtherLicense |
| Author | |
| Maintainer | John J. Camilleri <john@digitalgrammars.com> |
| Category | Natural Language Processing, Compiler |
| Home page | https://www.grammaticalframework.org/ |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-core/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-core.git |
| Uploaded | by anka213 at 2025-08-08T19:06:01Z |
| Distributions | |
| Reverse Dependencies | 1 direct, 0 indirect [details] |
| Executables | gf |
| Downloads | 14768 total (54 in the last 30 days) |
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| Status | Docs not available [build log] All reported builds failed as of 2025-08-08 [all 2 reports] |
Readme for gf-3.12.0
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Grammatical Framework (GF)
The Grammatical Framework is a grammar formalism based on type theory. It consists of:
- a special-purpose programming language
- a compiler of the language
- a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
- generation
- parsing
- translation
- type checking
- computation
- paraphrasing
- random generation
- syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
- multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
- semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic properties of expressions)
- grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
- embeddability in programs written in other languages (C, C++, Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
Compilation and installation
The simplest way of installing GF from source is with the command:
cabal install
or:
stack install
Note that if you are unlucky to have Cabal 3.0 or later, then it uses the so-called Nix style commands. Using those for GF development is a pain. Every time when you change something in the source code, Cabal will generate a new folder for GF to look for the GF libraries and the GF cloud. Either reinstall everything with every change in the compiler, or be sane and stop using cabal-install. Instead you can do:
runghc Setup.hs configure
runghc Setup.hs build
sudo runghc Setup.hs install
The script will install the GF dependencies globally. The only solution to the Nix madness that I found is radical:
"No person, no problem" (Нет человека – нет проблемы).
For more information, including links to precompiled binaries, see the download page.
About this repository
On 2018-07-25, the monolithic GF repository was split in two:
The former repository is now archived and no longer updated. The split was performed using this script and the output of that script is here.