The GF Cloud

MOLTO flagship

Thomas Hallgren, John Camilleri & Aarne Ranta

Göteborg, 2013-05-20

The GF Cloud

Web-based tools and APIs

• Minibar
• Syntax Editor
• GF Simple Grammar Editor
• Simple Translation Tool
• APIs

Minibar

• Guided text entry
  • Word subsitutitions, preserving agreement
  • Integrated with the syntax editor
• Useful as a stand-alone translation tool
  • Phrasebook, Mathbar
• Useful for testing during grammar development
  • Parsing, linearization, random generation, inflection tables
  • Visualizations: word alignment, parse trees

Syntax Editor

• Intuitive, direct manipulation of abstract syntax trees
• View linearizations in all languages
• Integrated with the minibar

Minibar & Syntax Editor demo

GF Simple Grammar Editor

• Create grammars without downloading any tools
• Built-in error checking and guidance
  • Teaching tool
• Integrated with the minibar for grammar testing
  • Edit-compile-test grammars in the cloud
• ...

GF Simple Grammar Editor

Simple Translation Tool

• Bilingual document editor
• Text import with basic segmentation support
• Manual and automatic translation (GF x 2, Apertium)
• Post-editing
• Local and cloud-based document storage

Simple Translation Tool

APIs

• PGF run-time service web API
  • Parsing, linearizion, visualization
• GF Cloud Service API
  • GF compiler web API
  • GF shell
  • Grammar checking & compilation
  • Grammars and other documents in the cloud

Availability

The web apps, APIs and documentation

• On our server
  • cloud.grammaticalframework.org
• On your own computer:
  • Download GF and run it with gf -server
• The web apps work on any device with a modern web browser
  • Implemented in HTML5+JavaScript

References

• D2.1: The GF Grammar Compiler API
• D2.2: Grammar IDE
• PGF run-time service web API
• GF Cloud Service API
• Minibar & Syntax Editor
• GF online editor for simple multilingual grammars
• Simple Translation Tool

The end?

The end...

The end!