GenI-0.24: NEWS
GenI 0.24, 18 Sep 2013
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Note that the changes between this release and 0.20 are considered to be under
the BSD3 license. GenI overall remains dual-licensed under the GPL and any
commercial-use terms you may wish to negotiate with INRIA. Having secured the
rights to use GenI 0.20, you may freely use GenI 0.24 in a similar fashion.
CHANGES TO WATCH OUT FOR
* Server/GUI changes: Semantic input must be full input.
- Before: `foo(x) bar(y z)`
- After: `semantics:[foo(x) bar(y z)]`
* Customisable semantics : now you can accept any arbitrary
input for which you can define a mapping to a GenI-style test case
* API change: the custom semantics argument is mandatory
* More extensive documentation
GUI
* Visual distinction between explicit null adjunction constraints
(marked NA) and constraints inserted by GenI (marked INA)
* Bugfixes (now retains show-feature state across debugger steps)
* More informative top/bot unification failure diagnostics in the
trash
GENERAL
* New "guided realisation" optimisation (focus on one polarity
path at a time)
* Fixed errors where top/bottom unification wasn't being done
* Builds with haskell-platform 2013.2.0.0
GenI 0.22, 14 Apr 2012
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Note that the changes between this release and 0.20 are considered to be under
the BSD3 license. GenI overall remains dual-licensed under the GPL and any
commercial-use terms you may wish to negotiate with INRIA. Having secured the
rights to use GenI 0.20, you may freely use GenI 0.22 in a similar fashion.
CHANGES TO WATCH OUT FOR
* Separation of geni and geni-gui into two packages;
simpler installation
* Now using the top feature for lemanchors instead of bot
* Empty disjunctions forbidden in unification variables
* JSON input/output to morph processors have changed
* Lexical selection unifies semantics of tree schema + lemma with
input semantics.
GUI
* New results tab with reminder of inputs
* Add gui element to display unanchored lexical selection.
* Jump to new tab in debugger panel when created.
* Update gui to use Pretty instead of Show
* Rename $algo-session tab to "tree assembly"
* Make warnings resizable.
* Fix display of path equations with 'interface' in them.
* Fix #50 - load button has no effect.
* Fix #49 - correct order that leaf nodes are returned.
* Show GenI version in About box.
* Add detect polarities and root feature editor to main gui.
DOCUMENTATION
* Literate GenI and genimanual replaced with
http://projects.haskell.org/GenI/manual
GENERAL
* Builds with GHC 7
* Core behaviour
* Early null-adjunction and semfilter obligatory
* Handling of zero-literal semantic items restored
* Unconstrained polarities in automaton construction.
This makes it possible to do polarity detection with only a
weakly specified root feature like [cat:_], and without needing
the relevant feature to be implemented everywhere.
* Flags:
* --trees (used to be --macros; latter is deprecated)
* --batchdir now optional (defaults to a new temp dir)
* --maxsteps (stop after N steps)
* --extrapol REMOVED (use root feature instead)
* Logging facility (not used much in GenI yet)
Can be configured in ~/.geni/config.yaml, for example
logging:
-
name : NLP.GenI.Console
level : WARN
format : simple "$msg"
-
name : NLP.Geni.LexicalSelection
level : DEBUG
format : simple "$utcTime $loggername $msg"
handler : stderr
* Less repetition in warnings (hopefully easier to read)
* More hiding of constructors for safety
* New enrichment option for setting co-anchors (foo.lex=hello)
* Lexical selection performance enhancements
* Variables that only occur once are converted to anonymous,
should make unification a bit more efficient
* Fix #39: reject malformed root feature input.
* New feature:
* Variables with constraints on their possible values (?X/foo|bar)
* Fancy disjunctions: tree schemata now allow disjunctions of
unification variables (but not recursive). These must flatten down
to plain old atomic disjunction once converted to elementary trees
* Time metric in statistics (Laura Perez)
* Do top/bottom unification on na-constrained nodes during initialisation.
* Polarity detection relaxed to work with constrained variables too.
(?X/foo|bar gives the result as foo|bar)
* Bugfix in interpretation of root feature (it should be sorted).
* Flags:
* --rootfeat always assumed, but defaults to '[cat:_]'
* '-r' a short command line option for '--rootfeat'.
LIBRARY
* Somewhat safer and easier to understand API
(still no stability yet)
* Replace String with Text in GeniVal
* Replace Show abuse with custom Pretty class
* Slightly less stateful (no target semantics in state)
* Much rearranging and renaming (sorry!)
* New: ability to provide custom lexical selection action
* New: ability to provide custom morph postprocessing action
* de-haskell98 (Gwern Branwen)
* No more null builder.
TOOLS (darcs get --lazy http://code.haskell.org/GenI)
* new tool, genireport: summarise batch generation results
* geniserver now talks over HTTP using a JSON format
* Use Sylvain Salvati's xmg2geni.xsl instead of geniconvert.
* xmg2geni: fix treatment of missing lexemes.
* xmg2geni: treat type=coanchor as other nodes in GenI.
* geniwrapper: illustrates C wrapper of GenI API
GenI 0.20, 29 Sep 2009
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- NON BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE CHANGES
* GHC 6.8 or higher now required (GHC 6.10 + Haskell Platform preferred)
* Input files now *assumed* to be UTF-8 encoded
(output still ISO8859-1; hopefully locale-based in GHC 6.12)
* Interface between GenI and morphological realiser now uses a JSON format.
* Rootfeat optimisation now mandatory (flag no longer recognised)
- NEW FUNCTIONALITY
* new flag --version now works and reports version from Cabal file
* new flag --dump dumps derivation output to stdout in JSON format
* new flag --ranking foo ranks outputs according to OT-style constraints expressed in foo
* --batchdir now works with --testcase
* --batchdir now dumps derivations and statistics in JSON format
* --batchdir now works with instructions files
* --metrics always expands 'default' to the default metrics
(in addition to any other statistics you request)
* new optimisation: early null-adjunction detection
- QUALITY ASSURANCE
* Reference manual in docs/genimanual.pdf (make docs)
* cabal install -fgui and cabal install produce the same underlying library
only the executable is different
* Easier GUI installation for MacOS X (application bundles now built
automatically; no manual intervention required)
* Adopted odd/even convention to distinguish devel builds from stable ones
(eg. GenI 0.21.x is devel whereas GenI 0.20.x is stable)
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)
GenI 0.10, 11 Dec 2006
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* Performance much improved after Haskell profiling
* Pre-compiled grammars option, geniserver (buggy)
GenI 0.9, 8 Dec 2006
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* Switched to new syntax: variables now must be prefixed with '?'
* Switched from Alex/Happy to Parsec
* Added API documentation via haddock
GenI 0.8, 16 Sep 2005
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* Support for latin-1 characters using Unicode wxhaskell
* Added a configure script and an install target in Makefile
* Changed from use of configuration files to use of command line switches
* Full configuration GUI
* Implementation of atomic disjunction
* --ignore-semantics mode (Jackie Lai)
GenI 0.7, 8 June 2005
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* Upgraded to ghc 6.4, wxwidgets 2.6, wxhaskell 0.9.4
GenI 0.6, 3 May 2005
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* User interface fixes (Window size bugs)
* Interface with Yannick Parmientier's selection module