link grammar older changes

Link Grammar Parser Older Changes

Summary of Older Changes

Version 4.5.10 (25 August 2009)

Be sure to link with -lm

Version 4.5.9 (25 August 2009)

Modify error messages to indicate that they are from link-grammar.
Add missing Java files that were forgotten last time around.
Add greeting to command-line client startup.
Print disjunct cost also, when requesting disjunct printing.
Add missing color names as mass nouns.
Fix: Reclassify musical instruments: "He plays piano"
Add experimental word-clustering system.
Add CMake build file
Fix: "It takes longer than that."
Fix: "He has done very well."
Fix: a dozen optionally transitive verbs (swim, kill, etc.)
Fix: "He's out running."
Fix: "suddenly" is a "manner adverb", not a clausal adverb.
Fix: Use Pg links to gerunds: "He feared hitting the wall."
Fix: assorted numerical-range bugs.
Fix: prep modifiers with distances: "It is a few miles out"
Fix: Spelled-out dates: "It started in nineteen twelve"
Fix: Misc date, time expression parsing e.g "Zero hour is here."
Fix: Misc words, "ordered list", "screened out"
Fix: Post-fixed numbers can act as determiners.
Fix: "We bought the last 50 ft. of cable."
Fix: opening directives to imperatives: "Finally, move it back."
Fix: Improved simple equation parsing support.
Fix: Add misc fixes from BioLG that were previously overlooked.
Fix: "favorite" can take determiner "a" ("a favorite place")
Fix: assorted clausal complements: "The emperor ordered it done."
Fix: ordinals: "First on our list is ..."
Fix: verb modifier "some of the time", "most places"
Fix: Sit, stand take modifiers: "he stood still"

Version 4.5.8 (2 July 2009) includes the following changes:

Fix: 'than anticipated', 'than was anticipated', etc.
Fix: 'saw the wood'
Fix: sometimes commas are used as if they were semicolons.
Fix: 'We have quite enough work already, thank you!'
Fix: allow 'and' as conjunction in entity names.
Fix: 'I stared him down', 'They shouted him down', 'booed off'
Fix: 'sound him out', 'look him over'
Fix: 'Somewhere in the distance'
Stub out list of names given to both men and women, to avoid duplication.
Fix: 'I think so, too'
Fixes for compilation under Cygwin.
From Boris Iordanov: fixes to JSON java code.
From Boris Iordanov: new java remote client code.
Fix: Biological texts commonly have adj-noun-adj-noun chains

Version 4.5.7 (4 June 2009) includes the following changes:

Fix 'make install' for windows (abi bug 12049)
Fix multi-threaded bug when TRACK_SPACE_USAGE is defined.
Add './configure --enable-mudflap' just for fun...
Fix: "Walk tall", "Think quick"
Fix: "... part no. 1234-56A"
Fix regression from BioLG merge: "It cost $14 million."
Fix come/came: "The dog came running..."
Fix year abbreviations: "He drove a souped-up '57 Chevy"
Fix sit, stand: "The dog stood still"
Fix act up, act out: "He is acting out." "The motor is acting up."
Fix notoriously, poorly: "The store was poorly stocked".
Fix: "strong" can be adverb
Add support for recognizing basic time zones during parsing.
Fix: verbs acting as adjectival modifiers: "a very politicized deal."
Fix: ".. nearly so well", "...almost so well".
Fix financial ranges: "It will cost $10 million to $20 million to build."
Expand handling of capitalized words that appear in entity names.
Expand the list of characters that are recognized as quotes.
Support usage of yes, no as sentence openers.
Better support for directives, commands.
Fix: "Ash Wednesday", "Fat Tuesday", etc.
Fix: post-verbal adj: "she wiped the table dry"
Fix: wish: "she wished me a happy birthday"

Version 4.5.6 (24 May 2009) includes the following changes:

Bugfix: fix non-thread-safe usage.
Changes to enable MinGW/Windows to compile.
Update of MSVC6 build files
Fix: pizza, fries, chopsticks.
Export word-sense database to Java apps.
Fix: "Was the man drunk or crazy or both?"

Version 4.5.5 (10 May 2009) includes the following changes:

Bugfix: crash for zero-length sentences.

Version 4.5.4 (9 May 2009) includes the following changes:

Fix: "sleep in": "A bed is something you sleep in."
Fix: "drinking": "Let's go drinking."
Fix go+bare infinitive: "Let's go shop", "Let's go swim"
Fix: "Let's go for a swim." "Let's go for a smoke".
Fix: "Let's not" "Let's not go" "Let's not cry"
Fix: ... is : "All he ever does is complain."
Fix: "You will die young/happy/unhappy"
Fix: "You should exercise to stay fit."
Fix: "We danced 'til dawn."
Fix: "tell off": "She had told him off."
Bugfix: sometimes spell checker would run even if turned off.

Version 4.5.3 (14 April 2009) includes the following changes:

Haste makes waste! Revert a recent 'fix'.

Version 4.5.2 (14 April 2009) includes the following changes:

Use re-entrant version of mbtowc in all code.
Fix run-time breakage on Mac OSX and FreeBSD.

Version 4.5.1 (13 April 2009) includes the following changes:

Fix Assertion failed: negative constituent length!
Fix build break for Mac OSX.
Force use of UTF-8 locale in the command-line tool.

Version 4.5.0 (10 April 2009) includes the following changes:

Hack around missing SQLite3 pkgconfig on MacOS
Fix adverbs: 'The motor ran hot', 'the door swung wide open', etc.
Fix: 'at risk of breakdown', 'under threat of fire'
Add regular-expression-based word guessing, from BioLG project. This provides support for many scientific/biomedical terms.
Add spell-guessing for unknown words.
Fix UTF8 support to be correctly thread-safe.
BioLG: fix post-numbering: 'it started on day one'
BioLG: add number ranges: 'it takes 2 to 3 times the effort'
BioLG: assorted adverb fixes, typical of scientific prose.
BioLG: initiate, attach, localize etc are optionally transitive.
BioLG: allow fork, branch, splice, export, etc to take particles.
BioLG: extended use of Greek letters in biomedical text.
BioLG: support parsing of Roman numerals.
BioLG: support Greek-letter-number combinations.
Fix: 'she was singing', etc.
Enable WordNet word-sense identification based on syntactical usage.

Version 4.4.3 (11 March 2009) includes the following changes:

Look at JAVA_HOME to guess location of jni.h
Add dictionary maintenance utility script.
Add prototype German dictionary.
Fix sentences containing measurements, lengths, speeds. etc.
Add 1400 new adjectives, many of scientific origin.
Add 250 international currencies, including special utf8 symbols.
Performance optimization in sentence tokenization.
Add 1100 male, female given names (from Bruce Wilcox).
Cleanup parsing of "in-" date expressions, e.g. "in the 1940's".
Cleanup of assorted compiler warnings.
Fix handling of special utf8 characters in dictionary.
Fix hang when parsing certain utf8 input strings.
Make sure that most strings in the API are declared const char *
Add option to command-line client to print disjunct strings.

Version 4.4.2 (15 January 2009) includes the following changes:

Fix: 'The keys are gone', 'It is a gone desire'
Fix: 'He poured me a glass', 'He wired me the money', etc.
Initial rough-in of corpus statistics based parse ranking.
Initial rough-in of corpus-guided word-sense identification.
Fix for googlecode bugs 38, 39 (Java, Ruby failure to load)
Add new API routine to return disjunct string.

Version 4.4.1 (15 December 2008) includes the following changes:

Balance the dictionary tree; this speeds word-lookup slightly.
New MSVC6 build files from Evgenii Philippov.
Fix java server classes to pass along the link-grammar version number.

Version 4.4.0 (7 December 2008) includes the following changes:

fix: recognize curly-single-quote ’ where straight quote can be used.
recognize and explicitly ignore emoticon types.
Include MSVC6 build files.
Apply patch needed for Ruby bindings.
fix: "Where did they come from?", per Viswanath IIIT
fix: "Where did they go to?"
fix: "It gives me peace of mind."
fix: many, many incorrectly identified mass nouns.
fix: ladle.v "molten hot" "piping hot"
fix: "It's a shame that...", "The crux of the plan is that..."
Performance improvements (about 11%) to prunce.c from Bruce Wilcox
fix: "He eats with me nightly."
Add new public api function: linkgrammar_get_version()
MSVC9 build files from Borislav Iordanov
Java network-efficient client-server classes from Borislav Iordanov

Version 4.3.9 (8 October 2008) includes the following changes:

Issue 13: "John is altogether amazingly quick."
Nonstandard spelling "unequivocably"
Dictionary fixes for 'marginally', etc. "That one is marginally better"
Issue 7: Dictionary fixes for 'done': "I am done working"
dictionary entries for walk-up drivethru car-wash
dictionary: "I am through being mad", "It was a through flight", etc.
Issue 11: "You are doing well"
Issue 3: "I asked Jim a question", "I told Jim a story"
Passive subjects with objects: "I was told that crap, too" "...was asked..."
Fixes for Apple Mac OSX (crash on non-executable stack)
Early version of Filip Maric's boolean SAT solver
fix: "He talked quietly of revolt."
fix: "It consists mostly of sand.", "He talks, mostly of revolution."
fix: "He talked mostly to Ann.", "He talks a lot."
fix: than_usual: "He is taking longer than usual."
fix: a batch of new verbs from Roman Khlupin
fix: Fix crash on Apple Macintosh by correctly identifying the platform.
fix: "San Gabriel" "Block Island" "Great Southern Bank" "de la Rente"
fix: "I biked Johnson Creek."

Version 4.3.8 (14 August 2008) includes the following changes:

Build fixes for Windows (missing bzero and thread-safe rand)
Fix several mem leaks, one in the Java jni code.
Fix crash of java6 jvm, due to blown stack limits.

Version 4.3.7 (8 August 2008) includes the following changes:

Expanded list of given names to include those from 2005 US Census
Export a new java jni function, to get the inflected word.
Add a TO+ connector so that "I tend to agree" parses correctly.
Makefile fixes for OS/X Leopard

Version 4.3.6 (21 July 2008) includes the following changes:

Fixes for Windows MS Visual-C builds.
Fix parsing of "He walked the dog.", "He sailed the boat."
Add support for right-apostrophe (’) which is a non-ASCII UTF8 char.
Add support for other non-ASCII UTF8 punctuation.
Fix crash on printing constituent tree of certain long sentences.
Avoid recursive error reporting for UTF8 dictionary errors.
Clarify error logging and error printing.
Add java getVersion() to return link-grammar version string.
Add more numbers to dict (e.g. twenty-seven, bazillion, half-dozen, etc.)
Foodstuffs: bagels, lox, tacos, guacamole, roe, neufchatel, mayo, etc.
Weights and measures: megabytes, °C, km² etc.
Performance improvements in printing of link-tree.
Convert assert into warning when no canonical linkages can be found.
Convert assert into warning when constituent andlist overflows.
Provide additional checks for constituent overflows.
Convert most error printfs into a formal error reporting system.
Remove all globals, library is now thread-safe.
Fix crash when sentence has square bracket, and doing constituents.

Version 4.3.5 (29 April 2008) includes the following changes:

Added ant build file to create the link-grammar jar file.
Fix regression in command-line client of multiple-parse display.
Use MB_LEN_MAX, not MB_CUR_MAX for UTF8 support.
Fix a WIN32 compiler regression (no in-line support in Windows).
Fix error in handling of UTF8 dictionaries.
Fix strncat() misuse in error.c
Fix capitalization errors in country names.
Fix parsing of "he angled left, he dodged left, he turned left".
Don't build the JNI library if Java isn't found. Fixes build on Windows.
Fix install bug for NetBSD systems.
Pre-detected entities cannot participate in G links.
There is no UTF8 support in windows, so stub it out.
Fix crash in constituent output, bug #22 in googlecode bugtacker.
Some small steps taken to eventually make library thread-safe.
There are three constituent string styles, enable all three.
Make the command-line flag errors less cryptic.
Add readline (BSD editline) support.
Rename "grammar-parse" to the more logical "link-parser".
Small man page updates.
Export and cost, link cost via public API.

Version 4.3.4 (16 March 2008) includes the following changes:

Fix regression of handling of capitalization at the start of sentences.
Fix dictionary search path so that it respects command-line input.
Fix rare but nasty crash when parsing long sentences in panic mode.
Add a method to set the dictionary path.
Fix all remaining compiler warnings.
Make parser capable of handling UTF8 strings and dictionaries.
Ongoing minor expansion of the Lithuanian (lt) dictionary.

Version 4.3.3 (27 February 2008) includes the following changes:

Missing java is a warning, not an error.
man page for grammar-parse.
Removed cruft from the dictionary open routines.
configure tries to guess some non-standard jni.h locations.
Split up java library exports, should help cygwin builds.
Fix java library pre-linking bug.
Minor English dictionary additions.
Prototype Lithuanian (lt) dictionary.

Version 4.3.2 (2 February 2008) includes the following changes:

Fix dictionary errors involving given names; e.g. any sentence with the name "John" in it.
Minor Windows build fixes.

Version 4.3.1 (31 Jaunary 2008) includes the following changes:

Merger of extensive dictionary additions from Peter Szolovits. This adds 15K new words, bringing the dictionary to 70K words total.

Version 4.3.0 (30 January 2008) includes the following changes:

New link types (Ct, Cta, Rn, Rw) for comparatives, so as to link relative clauses: "John is bigger than Dave is", "John wants more cookies than Dave wants". The Rw link is used to link question words to the relative clauses that follow them.
Dictionary Fixes for "Espresso is a coffee drink", "Teach me fetch", "I am pooped" as synonym for "I am tired", "Mother likes her", "Mommy loves me" and related. Also, directives involving "go": "Go play ball", "Go take a walk", "You and Rover go play with the ball."
Dictionary support for external entity markup. This includes the recognition of personID0..personID60, dateID0..dateID60, organizationID0..organizationID60 and locationID0..locationID60 as appropriate words.
Fixes of numerous compile-time warnings.
Simple Java (JNI) bindings.

Version 4.2.5 (11 November 2007) includes the following changes:

Fix for a security problem, involving a buffer overflow: CVE-2007-5395.