Version 5.13.1 (Maybe in 2026?)
* (Nothing yet)
Version 5.13.0 (28 October 2025)
* Minor English dictionary fixes.
* Bump minor version number due to changed lg-atomese API.
Version 5.12.9 (13 October 2025)
* Fix build break due to changing AtomSpace API.
Version 5.12.8 (26 September 2025)
* Fix build break ... again! Not all compilers are happy with the fix.
Version 5.12.7 (25 September 2025)
* Fix build break due to obsolete AtomSpace API usage.
Version 5.12.6 (29 August 2025)
* Fix build break due to missing header file.
Version 5.12.5 (31 May 2024)
* Bugfix tracon table size management. #1486
* Bugfix connector hashing for fewer hash collisions. #1487, #1528
* Bugfix python unit test for Thai on Apple. #1530
* New autogen.sh #1531
* Stop litering .lg_history in current directory. #1443 #1534
* MS Windows build fixes #1537
Version 5.12.4 (28 March 2024)
* Minor English dict fixes. #1470
* Use correct guard macro for glibc heap functions. #1471
* MacOS build fix #1473
* Silence javascript build errors. #1377
* Reduce memory use, improve performance, via Parse_set. #1480
* Optimize solutions with cycles. #1481
Version 5.12.3 (24 March 2023)
* Assorted Atomese fixes.
* Fix SAT-solver build breaks.
* Add dictionary flag to disable built-in capitalization rules. #1468
Version 5.12.2 (9 March 2023)
* Fix null-pointer deref in Atomese code.
Version 5.12.1 (5 March 2023)
* Assorted enhancements and fixes for the AtomSpace dictionary. #1362
* Fix missing HAVE_THREADS_H, affects Apple Homebrew. #1363
* Fix regex thread-safety issue. #1370
* Print warning about aspell; it leaks memory. #1373, #1376, #1493
* Deduplicate linkages when overflow forces random selection. #1378 #1396
* Fix direct dialect settings on connectors. #1382
* Cleanup dictionary backends. #1391 thru #1395
* English dict: paraphrasing fixes. #1398
* Report CPU time usage only for the current thread. #1399
* Extensive performance optimizations for MST dictionaries. #1402
* Remove old broken max-cost computations. #1456
Version 5.12.0 (26 Nov 2022)
* Fix crash when using the Atomese dictionary backend.
* Fix generation tokenization bug when dict has no unknown word token.
* Major Atomese dictionary extensions, including generation support.
* Minor tweaks to `any` uniform random parse tree language.
* Include U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE as a space character.
* Fix the various regexes so that they're thread-safe! #1354
* Maybe(?) fix FreeBSD missing -lstdthreads #1355
Version 5.11.0 (27 Sept 2022)
* Prototype support for dictionary in the AtomSpace.
* English dict: assorted missing nouns, verbs. #1289
* Performance improvements. #1309
* Fix Windows build break in 5.10.4, 5.10.5 fixed in #1313
* Fix "amy" language #1312
* Fix multilib systems, e.g. elf32-i386 #1314
* Corrected grapheme support for random morpheme sampling. #1315
* Thai language dictionary updates #1322
* Punctuation fixes #1331
* Affixes can now be specified with regexes #1334
* The regex library PCRE2 is required by default.
Version 5.10.5 (17 June 2022)
* Updated Docker files. #1288
* English dict: broader handling of ellipsis.
* Updated Thai dicts: #1292, #1294
* Fix Thai regex's to work even with basic C++ regex lib. #1297
* Performance improvements. #1298
Version 5.10.4 (4 March 2022)
* English dict: fix relative clause, per mailing list.
* Remove assorted length restrictions on word-size. #1283
* Add missing files for building link-generator on Windows. #1285
* Strip the internally added "._I" from subscripted idioms. #1287
* New: Provisional Thai dictionary. #1279
Version 5.10.3 (14 Feb 2022)
* Remove `node.js/package-lock.json` from tarball distribution. #1251
* Fix Windows MSVC build break. #1253
* Fix memory leak in the "!" link-parser command. #1256
* Add C++ regex support. It is now the default for MSVC builds. #1258
* Fix spell-guess for run-on words. #1249
* Port link-generator to MS-Windows. #1269
* Fix apostrophe handling for link-generator w/sqlite3 dicts. #1276
Version 5.10.2 (16 Sept 2021)
* Fix python install path.
* Fix size in brand-new `link-generator` (hits 32-bit & ARM) #1247
Version 5.10.1 (7 Sept 2021)
* Fix perl bindings build fail. #1248
Version 5.10.0 (4 September 2021)
* Expanded English vocabulary
* Support dictionary "#define allow-duplicate-words true". #1204
* Fix crash for sentences containing wildcard words. #1206
* Add the ability to use underbars in connector names.
Connector names starting with underbar are reserved for internal use.
* Connector names starting with "ID" are no longer reserved. #1208
* ".I" subscripts are no longer reserved; "._" subscripts are reserved.
These last two changes introduce linkage incompatibilities.
* Fix parsing with nulls when using an sqlite3 dictionary.
* Fix regexes for NetBSD when using libc regexes. #1223
* English dict: fix many "how?" questions.
* English dict: fix conditional sentences #1240
Version 5.9.1 (28 April 2021)
* Fix build break when SQLite3 is not installed. #1195
Version 5.9.0 (25 April 2021)
* Use #define for custom configuration in dictionaries. #1128
* Panic-mode fixes and extensions. In link-parser see !help panic_variables.
* English dict: fix silly mistake with "I love cats and dogs".
* Disable maintainer-mode in `configure.ac`.
* Fix very rare crash/corruption introduced in v.5.8.1 #1142
* English dict: fix problems with "just/only".
* English dict: work on hesitation markers.
* Fix multi-threading mem-leak. #1149
* Provide emscripten javascript wrapper for the command-line parser.
* Public API shared library entry points exported automatically. #1182
* Provide bindings for the Vala programming language.
* Increase number of allowed idiom expressions. #1187
* Replace O(n^2) idiom loading algo by an O(n log n) algo. #1194
* Disable SAT solver by default.
* New tool: Sentence generator! This is an experimental prototype.
Version 5.8.1 (8 January 2021)
* Fix macOS/SunOS build break.
* English dict: fix numerical identifiers used as adjectives.
* English dict: fix post-posed Latin adjectival modifiers.
* Merge upstream gentoo patches. #1102
* Make -O3 default for CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS, but overridable by the user.
* English dict: fix look_at, listen_to person-action
* English dict: fix verb "felt" with object-action.
* English dict: fix why-perform-action questions.
* Fix race condition in spell-guesser. #1122 #1123
Version 5.8.0 (28 February 2020)
* Java bindings: Remove the obsolete senses API.
* swig-4.0 compatibility bug fix.
* English dict: Fixes to support questions ending in WH-words.
* Copy (merge) Richard van der Dys `node.js` bindings.
* English dict: Provide head and tail markers for all conjunctions.
* Remove the Python 2 bindings.
* Add dialect support to the library.
* English dict: support for archaic/poetic abbreviations
* English dict: introduce OH link for vocatives/invocations.
* English dict: improved parsing of imperatives.
* Add !!word/ link-parser command for displaying extended word dict info.
Version 5.7.0 (13 Sept 2019)
* Minor efficiency improvements to the SQL-backed dictionary.
* Incompatible change to the Exp traversal API.
* Remove the obsolete and unsupported "corpus statistics" code.
* Major performance improvement (3x-4x) for long sentences. #996
* Fix broken build on Windows.
* Convert Windows build to Visual Studio 2019.
* Fix a bug that causes random results on 32-bit systems. #1000
* Fix a bug that could cause missing linkages on some systems. #1007
Version 5.6.2 (24 June 2019)
* Bug-fix the SQL-backed dictionary.
* Add missing public symbol to shlib export list.
* English dict: additions of paraphrasing verbs.
Version 5.6.1 (27 May 2019)
* Performance improvement (approx 20%) in expressions #882.
* Performance improvement (approx 10%) by disjunct/connectors pools #896.
* Performance improvement (4-10% for English) by faster power-pruning #903.
* Fix a bug in trailing connectors encoding (may cause bad linkages).
* Fix inability to form linkage when first word is disconnected.
* English dict: fix use of quotations with paraphrasing verbs.
* English dict: fix broken usage of "have not".
* Performance improvement (approx 16%) for long sentences. #931
* Performance improvement (approx 20%) for long sentences. #939
Version 5.6.0 (4 January 2019)
* Improve Windows support.
* Fix dict cost reading under user locales with comma decimal separator.
* Support using the pcre2 regex package (configured by default if available).
* Add "-with-regexlib=pcre2|tre|regex|c" to "configure".
* Fix and document building on FreeBSD.
* Major documentation update for building with Cygwin.
* Revise the manpage.
* Remove the experimental Viterbi code.
* Revise the SAT parser cost model to align it with the classic parser.
* Implement a strict check on connector name.
* Major revision of the SWIG interface file; wrap all the library functions.
* Fix linkage_get_disjunct_*() when parse-option display_morphology is true.
* Change library and python-bindings default for display_morphology to true.
* Drastic speedup for long sentences (hash encoding of trailing connectors).
* English dict: Support locative replies/declarations.
* English dict: broaden support for misc paraphrasing verbs.
* English dict: fix relativized paraphrasing.
* English dict: fix comparative-style conjunctions.
Version 5.5.1 (27 July 2018)
* Fix broken Java bindings build.
* English dict: Fix clause openers with questions.
* English dict: Various misc fixes.
* English dict: Various paraphrasing verbs
* Bring the SQL-backed dict to production state.
* Convert MSVC build to MSVC15 (Visual Studio 2017).
* Restore the repeatability of the produced linkages.
Version 5.5.0 (29 April 2018)
* Fix accidental API breakage that impacts OpenCog.
* Fix memory leak when parsing with null links.
* Python bindings: Add an optional parse-option argument to parse().
* Add an extended version API and use it in "link-parser --version".
* Fix spurious errors if the last dict line is a comment.
* Fix garbage report if EOF encountered in a quoted dict word.
* Fix garbage report if whitespace encountered in a quoted dict word.
* Add a per-command help in link-parser.
* Add a command line completion in link-parser.
* Enable build of word-graph printing support by default.
* Add idiom lookup in link-parser's dict lookup command (!!idiom_here).
* Improve handling of quoted words (e.g. single words in "scare quotes").
* Fix random selection of linkages so that it's actually random.
Version 5.4.4 (11 March 2018)
* Dictionary loading now thread safe.
* Fix post-nominal modifiers used with pronouns.
* Fix comparative openers.
* Fix given-name single-letter abbreviations.
* Fix conjoined questions and conjoined WH-statements.
* Fix conditional sentences.
* Fix misc comparatives.
* Fix crash on invalid UTF-8 input.
* Fix many predicative adjective uses.
* Fix many paraphrasing-type constructions.
* Minor cleanup of word-lists.
* New dict definition LENGTH-LIMIT-n to limit connector link length to n.
* Speed up parsing of Russian by factor of 2x.
* Add assorted technical vocabulary (#680)
* Fix conjoined infinitives.
Version 5.4.3 (4 January 2018)
* Fix man page installation (actually broken from 5.3.0).
* Add "thither" to the English dictionary.
* Fix printing inf loop for very narrow screen widths.
* Some Windows code clean up.
* Remove trailing blanks from the linkage diagram.
* Fix square area and cubic volume measurements (English dict).
* Fix assorted exclamations and responses (English dict).
* Fix displaying random linkages on Windows.
* Fix unit tokenization to remove ambiguity.
* Fix utf8-related bug on Windows that could affect printing.
* Add missing affix file, needed for the 'any' language.
Version 5.4.2 (19 October 2017)
* Fix man page build (broken in 5.4.1)
Version 5.4.1 (18 October 2017)
* Fix man page installation (broken in 5.3.8).
* Add affix-class MPUNC for splitting at intra-word punctuation.
* Fix crash when there is no PP info.
* Fix a stack buffer overflow.
* Eliminate hard-wired linkage diagram size limitations.
* Fix an unintended clipping of the linkage-limit option to 250000.
Version 5.4.0 (26 July 2017)
* Fix for missing locale info in Windows XP.
* Empty out the post-processing tables for the any, ady, amy languages
* Remove left_print_string() from the API.
* Recover pp_lexer.l from ancient version 2.2!
* Fix unusual crash in post-processing for the "any" language.
* Remove three deprecated post-processing functions from API.
* Major reorganization of code base into more modular directories.
* Revive the sqlite3 dictionary into operational form.
* Add double-quotes to splittable punctuation for the "any" language.
* Add API functions to get linkage word positions in the sentence.
* Fix printing of diagrams containing Chinese or other wide glyphs.
* Fix `make distclean` when ant not installed.
Version 5.3.16 (15 April 2017)
* Fix python3 unit tests.
* Restore tty state after ctrl-C, ctrl-Z of the app.
* Check for <stdatomic.h> before use (in Java bindings).
* Fix handling of punctuation in the "any" language.
Version 5.3.15 (12 Feb 2017)
* Fix Windows compilation; the new wcwidth files were omitted.
* Fix "amy" language for 3-way random morphology splits.
* Remove the "EMPTY_WORD" device; it is no longer needed.
* Enable morphology display in the java bindings, by default.
* Improve random sampling in the "ady" language.
* Improve performance by 10% to 15% for all languages.
* Fix broken multi-threading support in the Java bindings.
* Fix the `make uninstall` targets.
Version 5.3.14 (19 Jan 2017)
* Fix printing widths for Unicode-9 CJK ideographs and emoji's.
* Fix broken randomization in the "any" language.
* Add UTF-8 support to the random morpheme splitter (amy).
* Create an "ady" language for two-part morphology splits.
* Improved error notification facility (experimental).
Version 5.3.13 (19 Nov 2016)
* Fix fatal errors w/ zlib-dev and python dependencies.
Version 5.3.12: (17 Nov 2016)
* Fix bug in 'any' language (opencog/relex/issues/248).
* Preliminary support for common typos in English.
* Enable both python2 & python3 bindings by default.
* Fix locale_t use for the newly introduced Cygwin 2.6.0.
* Include in the distribution the missing make-check.py (for Windows).
* Minisat configuration improvements + fix a problem on Gentoo.
* When using the bundled minisat, link it statically, don't install it.
Version 5.3.11: (26 Sept 2016)
* Re-enable postscript header printing!
* Cleanup python API (in a non-backwards-compat fashion).
* Fix certain adverbial uses of "only".
* Fix some interjective openers to questions.
* Fix serious error with subject-verb inversion to past participle.
* Remove most calls to exit() from the library.
* Update the SAT solver code to use MiniSAT 2.2.
* Use the system minisat2 library if available, instead of the bundled one.
Version 5.3.10: (14 Sept 2016)
* Implement `make installcheck`.
* Pull #371: Simplification of API when handling disconnected words.
* Fix SAT parser crashes.
* Expand default list of Java JDK search paths.
* Fix python bindings: after timeout, no further parsing is performed.
* Fix various adverbial, conjunctive uses of "as", "so".
* Extended list of exclamations.
* Remove CC link, add VC link, for clauses to coordinating conjunctions.
* Fixes for the verb "dare", "someone or other", etc.
* Fix OSX build break, concerning undefined locale_t.
* Pull #385: Fix ancient bug that made dictionary debugging difficult.
Version 5.3.9: (27 August 2016)
* Pull req #354: Major changes to support Cygwin.
* Pull req #356: SAT parser bug fix.
* General python binding cleanup.
* Fatal error: Unable to open default dictionary.
Version 5.3.8: (15 August 2016)
* Disambiguate "Bob" the given name from "bob" the verb.
* Pull req #300: Crash while parsing certain Russian sentences.
* Pull req #301: MSVC compiler error, and warnings.
* Pull req #304: Python failure when no parses are possible.
* Pull req #309: Add MSVC14 support, remove MSVC9, MSVC12.
* Pull req #317: Make Java build reproducible.
* Remove (obsolete) binreloc support.
* Enable both python2.7 and python3.4 bindings to be built.
* Improved Cygwin and MinGW support (as well as improved MSVC support).
* Dictionaries now specify the appropriate locale.
Version 5.3.7: (7 May 2016)
* Fix another MacOS build break, regarding library exports.
Version 5.3.6: (30 April 2016)
* Add missing `parses-quotes-en.txt` file that python tests need.
* Fix build break related to lg_fgetc when libeditline is missing.
Version 5.3.5: (28 April 2016)
* Modified (hacked) Kazakh dictionary.
* MacOS bug fix: fgetc behaves oddly in OSX, see bug #293.
Version 5.3.4: (16 March 2016)
* Fix broken handling of apostrophe (issue #281).
* Revamp the README file; describe transitivity.
* Revised Turkish dictionary from Tatiana Batura, et al.
* Prototype Kazakh dictionary from Tatiana Batura, et al.
* Parse priority tweaks for the OpenCog chatbot.
* Fix Windows printing problem affecting some utf8 codepoints (issue #285).
Version 5.3.3: (23 December 2015)
* Improve support for quoted phrases.
* Fixes for assorted zero-infinitive speech acts.
* Add 37 paraphrasing verbs.
* Add Greek mythological names.
* A few dozen more common computing terms added to dictionary.
* Misc coordination and question fixes.
* Misc abbreviations.
* Vietnamese dictionaries!
* Major overhaul of subject-verb inversion.
* Performance improvements on long sentences. (pull #247)
* Change default setting of 'islands_ok' back to false (bug #140).
* Fix for build break on Mac OSX el_capitan w/clang (bug #255).
* Disable perl bindings by default; use Lingua::LinkParser
Version 5.3.2: (4 December 2015)
* Performance improvements, esp. for long sentences.
* Use std=c11 (the 2011 C standard) by default.
* Partial Irish English support.
* A few dozen common computing terms added to dictionary.
* Fix for build break on Mac OSX.
Version 5.3.1: (22 November 2015)
* Fix build break with SAT solver.
Version 5.3.0: (22 November 2015)
* Major redesign of the python bindings.
* Major redesign of sentence tokenization (the "wordgraph" design)
* Verb 'steal' is optionally transitive.
* Fixes for misc MSVC warnings.
* Hebrew dictionary expansion.
* Enhanced diagram printing, giving more space for link names.
* Minor work on phonetic agreement for 'a' vs. 'an'.
* Add ability to histogram the costs of different parses.
* Improve support for splitting sentences.
* Change default setting of 'islands_ok' to true.
* Improve performance on long sentences.
* Fix rare crash due to memory corruption on long sentences.
* Random morphology generation can be enabled at runtime.
* Remove obsolete, unmaintained MacOSX build file.
* Extensive updates to man page.
* Fix crash on long sentences (issue #137).
* Fix a memory leak in language bindings (issue #138).
* Remove bogus post-processor API function.
* Fix broken domain letter printing.
* New regex-file feature - negative regex'es.
* Correct the handling of morphology stems with non-LL links.
* Fix !!LEFT-WALL and !!RIGHT-WALL
* SAT solver now linked statically.
* Assorted SAT solver cleanup and improvements.
* Performance improvement in fast matcher: 15% faster on fixes.batch.
Version 5.2.5: (1 February 2015)
* Fix contracted "is" verb.
* Fix crash in batch mode (issue #63).
* Fix Python bindings so that setting PYTHONPATH is not required.
* Fix "... as I expected him to be."
* Fix incorrect printing for some Russian linkages. (pull #75)
* Fix warning from glibc version 2.20 (bug #77)
Version 5.2.4: (12 January 2015)
* Fix usage of 'less'.
* Fix MS Windows random number portability API.
* Fix mis-handled dictionary subscript dot (issue #53).
* Fix crash on dots used as fill (issue #57).
* Fix memory leak (issue #54).
Version 5.2.3 (4 January 2015)
* Fix broken check for editline UTF8 support.
* Work around broken perl binding definition for clang.
Version 5.2.2 (3 January 2015)
* Fix OSX build break.
* MSVC12 project file fixes.
* Check for UTF8 support in libedit ("undefined reference to el_wgets")
* Enable the 'make check' target for the multi-threading unit test.
* Misc verb fixes.
Version 5.2.1 (28 December 2014)
* Prototype Indonesian dictionary from Hendy Irawan.
* Fix crash on long sentences.
Version 5.2.0 (27 December 2014)
* y'all, ain't, gonna, y'gotta: Beverly Hillbillies basilect.
* Permanent removal of the fat-link code.
* Remove deprecated constituent tree code.
* Windows: add terminal screen resizing support.
* Windows: a build fix.
* reign, rule, run, leave, come: can take predicative adjective.
* Rework costs for many verb-derived adjectives.
* Handle (predicative) adjectival modifiers for assorted perfect verbs.
* Fixes for various color names.
* Fixes for various affirmative answers.
* Add 100 missing verbs.
* Add preliminary lxc-docker (docker.io) support.
* Remove MSVC6 support.
* Fix memleak introduced in version 5.1.0
* Speedup of 1.7x to 4x (depending on text) from linkage processing redesign.
* Fix multi-threading safety bug.
* Fix link-and-domain printing alignment (to handle utf8 char widths).
* Windows: fixes for MSVC12 support.
* Fix memory consumption bug (EMPTY_WORD) introduced in version 4.7.10.
* Get rid of xrealloc, which clashes with libbfd symbol xrealloc.
* Add multi-threaded parsing unit test.
Version 5.1.3 (7 October 2014)
* More fixes for build breaks on Apple OSX.
* Minor fixes involving "to do"
Version 5.1.2 (4 October 2014)
* Fix greeting: "How do you do?"
* Fix indirect object in 'what' questions: 'To what do you owe your success?'
* Fix assorted questions with verb "to be".
* Compile fixes for Apple OSX version "Mavericks"
Version 5.1.1 (23 September 2014)
* Minor post-processing cleanup.
* English dict: Fix questions with "it".
* swig: add missing API functions sentence_split, dictionary_get_lang
* Swap order of post-processing and bad morphology rejection.
* Fix handling of ellipsis when there's missing whitespace.
* Java: API bugfix/change: costs should have been doubles not ints.
* Fat-linkage code: fix it so it compiles again.
* Sat-solver: re-enable it so that it runs.
Version 5.1.0 (29 August 2014)
* Updated Russian dictionaries from Sergei Protasov.
* Added morphology-based unknown-word handling for Russian, from Sergei.
* Fix up fat-linkage code, which was recently broken...
* API cleanup: many command-line options never belonged in the API.
* New emoticon support was clobbering certain dictionary words.
* Fix: "Go to spot X", "It happens at time T."
* Add a dozen missing verbs.
* Minor work on greetings.
* Add mechanism for denoting fractional costs in the file-backed dict.
* Fix: broken handling of gerunds (due to bad verb-wall connectors)
* Major redesign of morpheme splitting mechanism (from AmirP)
* Minor extensions to support numeric formulas, e.g. 1 + 1 = 2.
* Remove fat linkage support from the SAT solver.
* Enable build of SAT solver by default.
* Fix multiple bugs with unit stripping.
* Add bounds-checking to the C API.
* Fix the old disjunct-printing implementation.
* Add support for easy-to-use link direction indicator.
* Add random morphology generator tool.
* Partial support for phonetic use of "a" vs. "an" for English.
* Rework how coordination between conjunctions works: "either... or ...", etc.
* Major redesign of tokenization mechanism (from AmirP)
Version 5.0.8 (30 April 2014)
* Fix handling of initial letters in ordered lists.
* Fix another serious error in constituent printing, introduced in 4.8.0.
* New emoticon support was clobbering certain number expressions.
* Misc English dict fixes, more verb-wall connectors.
Version 5.0.7 (29 April 2014)
* Compile fixes in SAT solver.
* Add missing verb-wall connectors for is, hasn't, haven't, hadn't, etc.
* Remove verb-wall connector for imperative verbs.
* Fix serious error in constituent printing, introduced in 5.0.3
* Fix old bug in command-line handling of options.
* Fix parsing of various ordered lists, including some tables of contents.
Version 5.0.6 (18 April 2014)
* Fix: JSON output format missing brace; from Matt Kruse.
* Fix: Serious error in Russian morphology printing.
Version 5.0.5 (17 April 2014)
* Fix packaging bug with the English dictionary.
Version 5.0.4 (16 April 2014)
* Expanded unit tests for capitalization.
* Fix who questions: "Who are they?", "Who are you?", etc.
* Provide verb-wall linkage for many questions.
* Add Biblical naming idioms: "Lud, son of Shem, ..."
* Fix MacOSX build break.
* Fix the 'make clean' target to not remove critical files.
* Fix broken emoticon support in English dict.
* Remove obsolete entity detection tokens from English dict.
* Fix broken equation parsing.
Version 5.0.3 (13 April 2014)
* Minor memory usage optimization
* Fix unit test: suppress printing of empty word, and of morphology.
* Fix: Swig and python were meant to be optional, not required!
Version 5.0.2 (10 April 2014)
* Expanded unit tests
* Fix another sqlite3-dev build break
Version 5.0.1 (9 April 2014)
* Dictionary debugging print fixes from Amir P
* Print summary of parse statistics when in batch mode (from AmirP)
* Generalize the notion of prefix/suffix to arbitrary classes (Amir P)
* Fixes for German adjectives.
* Fix build break when sqlite3-dev not installed.
* Fix regression in Russian morphology handling.
Version 5.0.0 (1 April 2014)
* License upgrade to LGPLv2.1
* Arabic dictionaries, from Jon Dehdari
* Persian dictionaries, from Jon Dehdari
* Support for Hebrew tokenization, from Amir P.
* Fix wild-card matching for user-supplied word lookup.
* Prototype Turkish dictionary from Can Bruce.
* Re-arrange programming language bindings directory.
* Adopt the orphaned/unsupported pylinkgrammar Python bindings.
* Deprecate the obsolete CNode interface.
* Provide low-level perl bindings.
* Adopt the orphaned/unsupported OCaML bindings.
* Support affirmative replies: "Who did it?" "John's evil twin."
* Expanded Lithuanian dictionary.
* Minor disjunct printing fixes.
* Fix: "Mary is too XXX to talk to."
* Prototype Hebrew dictionary from Amir P.
* Change !suffixes flag to !morphology.
* Introduce a bi-directional connector, for free-word-order languages.
* Introduce a symmetric-AND operator, for free-word-order languages.
* Add demo shell script for running the JSON parse server.
* Bugfix: Java server failing when input sentence has commas in it!
* New !test and !debug commands for selective debugging support.
* Print post-processing rejection message, when !bad is enabled.
* Remove some deprecated functions for C API.
* Remove all deprecated functions from Java API.
* Initial support for an SQL-backed dynamic dictionary.
Version 4.8.6 (2 February 2014)
* Fix minor OSX compiler warnings.
* Check for presence of Java ant before assuming it is there.
* Fix crash on certain sentences containing equals sign.
* Fix parsing of lists (blah, blah and blah).
* Fix build break for uClibc systems (Gentoo).
* Allow ungrammatical usage of 'ages' instead of 'aged'.
* Fix crash on certain sentences containing words with periods.
Version 4.8.5 (5 January 2014)
* Update memory usage accounting; fix accounting bugs.
* Fix Java garbage collection bug.
* Fix numerous compiler warnings in the SAT-solver code.
* Fix build-break involving multiple declaration of 'Boolean'.
Version 4.8.4 (30 December 2013)
* Fix build break for Mac OSX.
Version 4.8.3 (30 December 2013)
* Create new msvc12 build files, restore old msvc9 files.
* Revert location of the Windows mbrtowc declaration.
* Add verb-wall connector for present participles.
* Fix build-time include file directory paths.
* Provide the 'any' language to enumerate all possible linkages.
* Fix recognition of U+00A0, c2 a0, NO-BREAK SPACE as whitespace.
* Improve parse-time performance of exceptionally long sentences.
* Fix crash on certain sentences containing equals sign.
Version 4.8.2 (25 November 2013)
* More MSWindows UTF-8/multi-byte fixes (for Russian).
* Add missing JSONUtils file.
Version 4.8.1 (21 November 2013)
* Ongoing work on Viterbi.
* Updated MSVC9 project files from Jand Hashemi (Lucky--)
* Fix important bug in Java services: return top parses, not random ones.
* Java: for the link-diagram string, do not limit to 80 char term width.
* Windows: UTF-8 fixes so that Russian works in most MSWindows locales.
Version 4.8.0 (24 October 2013)
* Fix "he answered yes"
* Support bulleted, numbered lists.
* New link types from Lian Ruiting, for identifying the head-verb.
* Java: fix bug when totaling WordNet word-sense score.
* Java: add info to README about using the JSON parse server.
* Java: remove many deprecated functions.
* C API: remove some deprecated functions.
* Java: fix silent failure when library is not found.
* Java: Add support for fetching the ASCII-art diagram string.
* Java: Fix insane language selection initialization.
* Fix: "The pig runs SLOWER than the cat."
* Fix: conjoined superlatives: "... the longest and the farthest."
* Fix: "inside" can be used with conjunction: "near or inside..."
* Fix: conjoined question modifiers: "exactly when and precisely where..."
* Fix: issue 59: crash/corruption when dictionary opened twice.
* Fix: assorted exclamations!
Version 4.7.14 (20 June 2013)
* Fix build break on MacOSX
Version 4.7.13 (17 June 2013)
* Remove trailing carriage return in MSVC6 filenames.
* Performance improvement: avoid excess system timer calls.
* Unicode fixes for Windows.
* Fix: "... a purseful of pesos"; other currency fixes.
* MinGW, unicode fixes from Per Larsson
Version 4.7.12 (25 May 2013)
* Large fixes to the Russian dictionaries.
* Windows: Explicitly fail if Cygwin version is too old.
* Tweak the lt dict to work again with the modern parser.
* Make the fat linkages code be compile-time configurable.
* Disable fat linkages by default; mark as deprecated.
* Fix SAT-solver build; recent changes had broken it.
* Export read-dict.h as a public API.
* Ongoing development of the Viterbi prototype.
* Windows: some UTF8/widechar refactoring.
* Java bindings: add method to set the language.
* CMake: add version checking to the CMakefile
* Fix: failed handling of capitalized first word for Russian.
* Fix: stemming failures in many cases (for Russian dictionaries)
* Add flag to suppress stem-suffix printing.
* Windows: Fixes to MSVC6 build files.
* Fix: hash-table bug affecting Russian dictionaries
Version 4.7.11 (23 March 2013)
* Fix build bug introduced recently (build_disjuncts_for_dict_node)
* MSVC6 build environment fixes.
* Ongoing development of the Viterbi prototype.
Version 4.7.10 (9 March 2013)
* New: Russian dictionaries from Sergey Protasov!
* Improve prefix, suffix handling and stemming (needed for Russian)
* Fix: add "gurgle.n" to dictionary.
* Improve memory utilization (remove pointless malloc/free).
* Fix: UTF8 multi-byte diagram printing.
* Add UTF8 multi-byte editline support, when available.
* Include Common Lisp bindings, from Peter Szolovits (circa 2009).
* Ongoing work on pre-alpha Viterbi decoder.
* Fix: Bug 55: aspell header file included even if disabled.
* Updated MSVC6, MSVC9 project files.
* New, improved search for java jni.h
* Faster counting of disjuncts for the !! command.
* The !! command now shows regex entries and stem+suffix splits.
Version 4.7.9 (3 November 2012)
* Fix: Poor comma choices: "The man, that you saw..." (issue #36)
* Fix: Add more java jni.h search paths.
* Fix: Warning in java JSON interface.
* Fix: weren't constructions: "If it weren't for Sally, ..."
* Fix: Better support for ellipsis ...
* Fix: strangely: "He is behaving very strangely"
* Fix: assorted usages of yes, no, maybe
* Fix: "being" in subordinate clauses: "The blade being dull, he ..."
* Fix: Build failure for Mac OSX.
* Fix: "... this time for real".
* Fix: "... the impudence to laugh."
* Fix: "we two", "us two"
* Fix: very old parse bug, using "enough"
* Fix: assorted profanity as synonyms to "else"
* Fix: whoever, whomever
* Fix: decade possessives: "It's a 60's hit"
* Fix: "... chances that ... could be ..."
* Fix: "Do you have it ready?"
* Fix: "What John wants are those cats"
* Fix: greetings
* Fix: misc verbs: wave, ink, kiss, bake, corral, crown, decant, rope,
slice, ink, butter, proclaim, make, give, bid, bade, think
* Fix: titles can behave as indefinite nouns.
* Fix: somewhere, near, nearby, halfway, about
* Fix: police-interrogation style questions
* Ongoing work on pre-alpha Viterbi decoder.
Version 4.7.8 (10 October 2012)
* Ongoing work on pre-alpha Viterbi decoder.
* Fix include file paths so that 'make install' doesn't cause recompile.
* Fix build break due to bad include file paths in Makefiles.
Version 4.7.7 (6 October 2012)
* Fix configure to not bomb if c++ is not found. (weird regex.h missing)
* Fix configure to explicitly require c++ only if sat-solver enabled.
* Dictionary: parse comma in "Monsters, Inc."
* Update README about Viterbi algo.
* Remove malloc-dbg.c from the MSVC6 project file.
* Add missing source files to MSVC6 project file.
* Use enums for constituent display style.
* Move command-line parser to its own directory.
* Portability fixes for Windows, from Bill Hayes.
* Fix: "Show results from today"
* Fix: conjoined imperatives.
* Fix: qualified conditional clauses
* Fix: conjoined irregular verbs: seem, appear, do, be, prove, have
* Disable fat link code via conditional compile.
* Fix: "a lot of", "a gaggle of" now treated as quantifying determiners
* Fix: likewise: "gallons of", "grams of" volume measures as determiners
* Update German dictionary so that it actually loads.
* Fix: assorted "but not", "not very" constructions.
* Pre-alpha implementation of Viterbi decoder started.
* Fix: conjunctions of optionally ditransitive verbs.
Version 4.7.6 (26 April 2012)
* fast-match.c: unroll recursive call into loop (thx Valery Kholodkov).
* Fix accidental inclusion of internal header file from public header file.
Version 4.7.5 (16 April 2012)
* Remove several duplicate given names.
* Remove malloc-dbg.c from the MSVC9 project file.
* Remove several dozen duplicated idioms.
* New AM_SILENT_RULES for less noisy build!
* Clean up misc minor compiler warnings.
* Start using -O3 optimization for another 2% perf improvement.
* Fix configure.in --enable/--disable flags (bug #53)
* Some intransitive verbs are actually transitive in rare cases.
* Use enum not int for the cost-model type.
* Update the man page to reflect actual command usage.
Version 4.7.4 (13 February 2011)
* Dramatic speed improvement for long sentences (hash table fix).
* Fix: crash on certain sentences, when fat-link parsing enabled.
* Fix: fatal error introduced in last version (combinatorial explosion).
* Fix: mem leak introduced in last version (combinatorial explosion).
* Assorted fixes to the Boolean SAT solver.
Version 4.7.3 (7 February 2011)
* Fix: "level" as indefinite noun: "... at knee level".
* Enable max disjunct cost as a controllable parser parameter.
* Don't just give up on combinatorial explosion, show something!
Version 4.7.2 (6 January 2011)
* Fix: crash on certain sentences, when fat-link parsing enabled.
* Fix: 3 corrupted nouns in words.n.1
* Fix: minimize cpu spin if constituent processing and-list overflows.
Version 4.7.1 (11 December 2010):
* Fix: dictionary: Add "x" as synonym for "times".
* Fix: compilation failure due to lack of termios support on Windows.
* Fix: if not set, then force-set locale to UTF-8 in the java library.
* Fix: Explicitly include <stddef.h> for Windows builds.
* Fix: "John imagines himself lost".
* Fix: predicative adjectives w/misc verbs: "You are driving me crazy"
* Fix: "judge innocent", etc.
* Fix: many, many conjoined present tense verbs.
* Fix: conjoined verbs with negations.
* Fix: "to" as post-nominal modifier: "the inability to laugh"
Version 4.7.0 (12 September 2010):
* Fix: hunspell configuration on Fedora (bugtracker issue 47)
* Fix: 'turn' with adjective: "She turned him green" from wingedtachikoma
* Fix: comma-conjoined modifiers: "It tastes bitter, not sweet."
* Fix: conjoined question words: "When and where is the party?"
* Fix: recognize short, capitalized words (Los, La, etc.).
* Treat colon as synonym for is: "The answer: yes."
* Fix: begin with prepositions: "It all began in Chicago."
* Fix: "What does it come to?" and related.
* Fix: null infinitive: "I'd like to, I want to."
* Fix: "Because I said so."
* Fix: "sure" as preverbal adverb: "It sure is."
* Fix: Gerunds with determiners: "a running of the bulls"
* SJ link for conjoined nouns/noun phrases.
* Sort linkages according to whether fat linkage was used.
* Add flag to enable use of fat linkage during parsing.
(Fat links now disabled by default).
* Add male/female gender tags to misc nouns.
* Fix: misc optionally transitive verbs: mix, paint, boot
* Fix: word order: "look about fearfully", "look fearfully about", around
* Fix: recognize simple fractions
* Fix: "is" with uncountable nouns: "there is blood on your hands"
* Fix: Roman numeral suffixes e.g. "Henry VIII"
* Fix: regression in dates followed by punctuation. "In the 1950s, ..."
* Fix: verbs drank, drunk are optionally transitive.
* Fix: regression: "all the X", X can be plural or mass.
* Fix: verbs paint, color may be ditransitive: "paint the car bright green"
Version 4.6.7 (16 April 2010)
* Fix: configure handling of --enable-hunspell (bugtracker issue 46)
* Fix: conjoined modifier phrases: "the black and white cat sleeps."
* Fix: MSWindows+MinGW compilation issue.
* Update msvc9 Microsoft Visual C 2008 project, from Boris Iordanov.
Version 4.6.6 (19 March 2010)
* Minor fixes to handling of units.
* Fix: MSWindows+Cygwin/MinGW compilation issues.
* Use pkgconfig for editline (from Vincent Untz)
* Fix: "I want it back."
* Additional titular prefixes, suffixes: Maj. Ph.D.
* Add code to detect dictionary version number.
* Fix: MS VC missing strdup() function.
* Add AutoIt3 bindings from JRowe
Version 4.6.5 (3 November 2009)
* Fix: Superlatives without preceding determiners ("... likes you best")
* Fix: Take more care in distinguishing mass and count nouns.
* Fix: Old bug w/relative clauses: Rw+ is optional, not mandatory.
* Provide tags identifying relative, superlative adjectives.
* Remove BioLG NUMBER-AND-UNIT handling, it's been superseded.
* Fix handling of parenthetical phrases/clauses.
* Fix: handling of capitalized first words ending in letter "s".
* Fix: support "filler-it" SF link for "It was reasoned that..."
* Fix: certain WH-word constructions: "I did not know why until recently"
* Fix: go: "there goes the greatest guy ever"
* Fix: opening coordinating conjunctions: "And you can also ..."
* Configurable Hunspell spell-checker dictionary location.
* Fix: Misc ordinal usage.
* Add support for aspell spell-checker.
Version 4.6.4 (11 October 2009)
* Restore nouns starting w/letters x-z, elided in version 4.5.9 ff.
* Add support for single-word interjections/exclamations!
* Fix: sometimes command line client fails to show all valid linkages.
* Misc fixes: such_that, upon, acted.v
* Fix: impersonal "be" linking to passive participle.
* Fix: handling of capitalized first words.
* Fix: duplication of certain parses involving transitive verbs.
Version 4.6.3 (4 October 2009)
* Fix compilation bug on FreeBSD.
* Fix: allow MX link to post-nominal ", to be ..., "
* Fix: add idiom "time and again"
* Fix: another BioLG regression in handling of possessives.
* Fix: handling of period at end of number at end of sentence.
* Fix: Capitalized words ending in s at start of sentence.
* Use corpus-statistics-based ranking by default, if available.
* Fix difficulties in build of corpus statistics module.
Version 4.6.2 (21 September 2009)
* Fix: "come across as authoritative".
* Improve Java location guessing in FreeBSD
* Fix for assert triggered by long sentences.
* Fix: long sequence of periods treated as unknown word.
* Add informational print showing dictionary location on startup.
* Remove duplicated {@MV+} in tend.v
* Automatically resize the display size to fit the current window size.
* Fix handling of punctuation at the end of a capitalized word.
* Fix misc verbs acting as adjectival modifiers: e.g. "given", "allied"
* Fix bug in BioLG code regarding the handling of possessives.
* Fix a (rare) crash in sentences with many conjunctions.
* Fix a crash involving long sequences of UTF8 punctuation marks.
Version 4.6.1 (31 August 2009)
* Stop printing annoying warning when !vars are used.
* Fix missing dict file units.2 problem
* Fix compilation bug on FreeBSD.
Version 4.6.0 (29 August 2009)
* Avoid used of bzero, add missing include directives (MacOSX problem)
* Reclassify a number of "medical" prepositions as adverbs.
* Add approx 100 adverbs & 300 adjectives.
* Add approx 250 verbs.
* Add approx 300 nouns.
* Add misc units.
* Add misc European connector words/patronymics.
* Reclassify 100's of transitive verbs as optionally-transitive.
* Add distinct tokenization step ("sentence_split") to public API.
This last change forces the minor-version-number bump.
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)
* 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)
* Fix 'make install' for MSWindows (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)
* 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 <bare-infinitive>: "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 <direct-object> 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 prune.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 Mac 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 inline 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 MSWindows, so stub it out.
* Fix crash in constituent output, bug #22 in googlecode bugtracker.
* 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:
* Compile fixes for WIN32
* Dictionary fixes for given names. (Fixes a serious problem with 4.3.1)
Version 4.3.1 (31 January 2008) includes the following changes:
* A merger of significant parts of the "medical terms" dictionary
from Peter Szolovits. This includes thousands of additional words.
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:
* Security fix for a buffer overflow. CVE-2007-5395