Link Grammar Parser Older Changes

Summary of Older Changes

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.