File link-grammar.changes of Package link-grammar
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Tue Apr 1 06:48:04 UTC 2025 - Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- Update to version 5.12.5:
+ Bugfix tracon table size management.
+ Bugfix connector hashing for fewer hash collisions.
+ Bugfix python unit test for Thai on Apple.
+ New autogen.sh
+ Stop litering .lg_history in current directory.
+ MS Windows build fixes
- For more changes since version 5.10.5, please see the included
Changelog file.
- Use ldconfig_scriptlets macro for post(un) handling.
- Update URL and Source to new home.
- Drop NEWS file, it is no longer maintained.
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Tue Mar 11 13:36:14 UTC 2025 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Drop python bindings (unused, and incompatible with Python 3.13):
+ Pass --disable-python-bindings to configure.
+ Drop python3-clinkgrammar sub-package.
+ Drop pkgconfig(python3) BuildRequires.
+ Drop py310.patch: no longer needed.
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Tue Nov 7 08:56:41 UTC 2023 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Fix build with RPM 4.19: unnumbered patches are no longer
supported.
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Fri Jun 24 12:13:37 UTC 2022 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Update to version 5.10.5:
+ English dict: broader handling of ellipsis.
+ Updated Thai dicts.
+ Fix Thai regex's to work even with basic C++ regex lib.
+ Performance improvements.
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Fri Jun 17 12:55:49 UTC 2022 - Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- Update to version 5.10.4:
+ English dict: fix relative clause, per mailing list.
+ Remove assorted length restrictions on word-size.
+ Add missing files for building link-generator on Windows.
+ Strip the internally added "._I" from subscripted idioms.
+ New: Provisional Thai dictionary.
- Changes from version 5.10.3:
+ Remove `node.js/package-lock.json` from tarball distribution.
+ Fix Windows MSVC build break.
+ Fix memory leak in the "!" link-parser command.
+ Add C++ regex support. It is now the default for MSVC builds.
+ Fix spell-guess for run-on words.
+ Port link-generator to MS-Windows.
+ Fix apostrophe handling for link-generator w/sqlite3 dicts.
- Changes from version 5.10.2:
+ Fix python install path.
+ Fix size in brand-new `link-generator` (hits 32-bit & ARM).
- Changes from version 5.10.1:
+ Fix perl bindings build fail.
- Changes from version 5.10.0:
+ Expanded English vocabulary
+ Support dictionary "#define allow-duplicate-words true".
+ Fix crash for sentences containing wildcard words.
+ 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. *
".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.
+ English dict: fix many "how?" questions.
+ English dict: fix conditional sentences.
- Changes from version 5.9.1:
+ Fix build break when SQLite3 is not installed.
- Changes from version 5.9.0:
+ Use #define for custom configuration in dictionaries.
+ 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.
+ English dict: fix problems with "just/only".
+ English dict: work on hesitation markers.
+ Fix multi-threading mem-leak.
+ Provide emscripten javascript wrapper for the command-line
parser.
+ Public API shared library entry points exported automatically.
+ Provide bindings for the Vala programming language.
+ Increase number of allowed idiom expressions.
+ Replace O(n^2) idiom loading algo by an O(n log n) algo.
+ Disable SAT solver by default.
+ New tool: Sentence generator! This is an experimental
prototype.
- Changes from version 5.8.1:
+ 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.
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.8.0:
+ 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.
- Add flex BuildRequires, new dependency.
- Add py310.patch, and pass PYTHON_NOVERSIONCHECK=1
PYTHON=%{__python3} PYTHON_VERSION=%{python3_version} to
configure as configure does not yet understand version 3.10.
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Mon Apr 20 08:57:02 UTC 2020 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Drop python2 bindings:
+ Remove pkgconfig(python) BuildRequires.
+ Drop python2-clinkgrammar subpackage (not obsoleted: users
that need them can keep them).
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Sun Feb 2 19:56:27 UTC 2020 - Martin Herkt <9+suse@cirno.systems>
- Update to 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.
* Fix a bug that causes random results on 32-bit systems.
* Fix a bug that could cause missing linkages on some systems.
- Changes from 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.
- Changes from version 5.6.1 (27 May 2019):
* Performance improvement (approx 20%) in expressions.
* Performance improvement (approx 10%) by disjunct/connectors pools.
* Performance improvement (4-10% for English) by faster power-pruning.
* 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.
* Performance improvement (approx 20%) for long sentences.
- Changes from version 5.6.0 (4 January 2019):
* 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".
* 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.
* 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.
- Changes from version 5.5.1 (27 July 2018):
* 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.
* Restore the repeatability of the produced linkages.
- Enable SQLite3, pcre2 and SAT solver support: Add
pkgconfig(sqlite3), pkgconfig(libpcre-2.0) and minisat-devel
BuildRequires.
- Unbreak English dictionary (do not remove units.a): limit *.a and
*.la removal to %_libdir.
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Mon Jun 11 02:49:29 UTC 2018 - luc14n0@linuxmail.org
- Update to version 5.5.0:
+ Additions:
- An extended version API and use it in "link-parser
--version".
- A per-command help in link-parser.
- A command line completion in link-parser.
- Idiom lookup in link-parser's dict lookup command.
+ Fixes:
- Memory leak when parsing with null links.
- Spurious errors if the last dict line is a comment.
- Garbage report if EOF is encountered in a quoted dict word.
- Garbage report if a whitespace is encountered in a quoted
dict word.
- random selection of linkages so that it's actually random.
+ Improve handling of quoted words (e.g. single words in "scare
quotes").
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Sun Mar 18 00:08:48 UTC 2018 - luc14n0@linuxmail.org
- Update to version 5.4.4:
+ Dictionary loading now thread safe.
+ Fixes:
- post-nominal modifiers used with pronouns.
- comparative openers.
- given-name single-letter abbreviations.
- conjoined questions and conjoined WH-statements.
- conditional sentences.
- misc comparatives.
- crash on invalid UTF-8 input.
- many predicative adjective uses.
- many paraphrasing-type constructions.
- conjoined infinitives.
+ 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 (bac#680)
- Pass disable-java-bindings parameter to configure to ensure java
bindings are not wanted.
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Wed Feb 28 16:37:01 UTC 2018 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Modernize spec-file by calling spec-cleaner
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Wed Feb 14 19:46:01 UTC 2018 - jengelh@inai.de
- Improve grammar of summaries, and compact description
for subpackages.
- Fix broken find -delete calls.
- Implement shared library packaging policy.
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Wed Jan 17 03:21:07 UTC 2018 - luc14n0@linuxmail.org
- Update to version 5.4.3:
+ Fixes:
- Man page installation (actually broken from 5.3.0).
- Printing inf loop for very narrow screen widths.
- Square area and cubic volume measurements (English dict).
- Assorted exclamations and responses (English dict).
- Unit tokenization to remove ambiguity.
+ Add:
- "thither" to the English dictionary.
- Missing affix file, needed for the 'any' language.
- Remove obsolete %clean section since RPM does this work itself
nowadays.
- Change the python bindings Group tag to
Development/Libraries/Python instead of */*/C and C++.
- Change License tag to LGPL-2.1 instead of BSD-3-Clause following
upstream change in version 5.0.0.
- Update package description making it shorter and more assertive.
- Remove perl bindings package since it's use is not encouraged by
upstream.
- Point fdupes to the /usr directory instead of the build root,
which is a practice that must be avoided.
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Fri Nov 10 07:39:41 UTC 2017 - fezhang@suse.com
- Update to version 5.4.2:
+ Fix man page build (broken in 5.4.1)
- Changes from version 5.4.1:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.4.0:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.3.16:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.3.15:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.3.14:
+ 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).
- Changes from version 5.3.13:
+ Fix fatal errors w/ zlib-dev and python dependencies.
- Changes from version 5.3.12:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.3.11:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.3.10:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.3.9:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.3.8:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.3.7:
+ Fix another MacOS build break, regarding library exports.
- Changes from version 5.3.6:
+ Add missing `parses-quotes-en.txt` file that python tests need.
+ Fix build break related to lg_fgetc when libeditline is
missing.
- Changes from version 5.3.5:
+ Modified (hacked) Kazakh dictionary.
+ MacOS bug fix: fgetc behaves oddly in OSX, see bug #293.
- Changes from version 5.3.4:
+ 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).
- Changes from version 5.3.3:
+ 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
- Changes from version 5.3.2:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.3.1:
+ Fix build break with SAT solver.
- Changes from version 5.3.0:
+ 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 moprhology stems with non-LL links.
+ Fix !!LEFT-WALL and !!RIGHT-WALL
+ SAT solver now linked statically.
+ Assorted SAT sovler cleanup and improvements.
+ Performance improvement in fast matcher: 15% faster on
fixes.batch.
- Changes from version 5.2.5:
+ 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)
- Changes from version 5.2.4:
+ 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).
- Changes from version 5.2.3:
+ Fix broken check for editline UTF8 support.
+ Work around broken perl binding definition for clang.
- Changes from version 5.2.2:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.2.1:
+ Prototype Indonesian dictionary from Hendy Irawan.
+ Fix crash on long sentences.
- Changes from version 5.2.0:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.1.3:
+ More fixes for build breaks on Apple OSX.
+ Minor fixes involving "to do"
- Changes from version 5.1.2:
+ 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"
- Changes from version 5.1.1:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.1.0:
+ 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)
- Add autoconf-archive, automake, fdupes, python-devel,
python3-devel BuildRequires: new dependency.
- Create new subpackages python2-clinkgrammar and
python3-clinkgrammar.
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Wed Aug 9 12:18:44 UTC 2017 - pgajdos@suse.com
- link against hunspell instead of aspell [bsc#1052958]
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Tue Jul 1 06:45:58 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 5.0.8:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 5.0.7:
+ 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.
- Ensure perl bindings are installed in vendorlib instead of
sitelib (by replacnig the perl calls using sed in configure).
- Create new subpackage perl-clinkgrammar; require the same from
the -devel package.
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Thu Apr 24 08:58:16 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 5.0.6:
+ Fix: JSON output format missing brace.
+ Fix: serious error in Russian morphology printing.
- Changes from version 5.0.5:
+ Fix packaging bug with the English dictionary.
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Thu Apr 17 07:49:20 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 5.0.4:
+ 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 Englsh dict.
+ Fix broken equation parsing.
- Changes from version 5.0.3:
+ 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!
- Changes from version 5.0.2:
+ Expanded unit tests.
+ Fix another sqlite3-dev build break.
- Changes from version 5.0.1:
+ Dictionary debugging print fixes.
+ Print summary of parse statistics when in batch mode.
+ Generalize the notion of prefix/suffix to arbitrary classes.
+ Fixes for German adjectives.
+ Fix build break when sqlite3-dev not installed.
+ Fix regression in Russian morphology handling.
- Add gcc-c++ BuildRequires: new dependency.
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Wed Apr 2 12:17:53 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 5.0.0:
+ 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.
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Mon Feb 3 22:06:51 UTC 2014 - zaitor@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.8.6:
+ 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.
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Fri Jan 24 15:13:48 UTC 2014 - zaitor@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.8.5:
+ 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'.
- Changes from version 4.8.4:
+ Fix build break for Mac OSX.
- Changes from version 4.8.3:
+ 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Dec 14 21:57:11 UTC 2013 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.8.2:
+ More windows UTF-8/multi-byte fixes (for Russian).
+ Add missing JSONUtils file.
- Changes from version 4.8.1:
+ Ongoing work on viterbi.
+ Updated MSVC9 project files.
+ 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 windows
locales.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Oct 25 07:49:40 UTC 2013 - zaitor@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.8.0:
+ Support bulleted, numbered lists.
+ New link types from Lian Ruiting, for identifying the
head-verb.
+ C API: remove some deprecated functions.
+ Java:
- Fix bug when totalling WordNet word-sense score.
- Add info to README about using the JSON parse server.
- Remove many deprecated functions.
- Fix silent failure when library is not found.
- Add support for fetching the ASCII-art diagram string.
- Fix insane language selection initialization.
+ Fixed:
- "The pig runs SLOWER than the cat."
- Conjoined superlatives: "... the longest and the farthest."
- "inside" can be used with conjunction: "near or inside..."
- Conjoined question modifiers: "exactly when and precisely
where..."
- issue 59: crash/corruption when dictionary opened twice.
- Assorted exclamations.
- "he answered yes".
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Jun 22 15:05:22 UTC 2013 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.14:
+ Fix build break on MacOSX.
- Changes from version 4.7.13:
+ 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon May 27 06:53:18 UTC 2013 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.12:
+ 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.
+ Add flag to suppress stem-suffix printing.
+ Windows: Fixes to MSVC6 build files.
+ Fix: hash-table bug affecting Russian dictionaries.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sun Mar 24 14:05:19 UTC 2013 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.11:
+ Fix build bug introduced recently.
+ MSVC6 build environment fixes.
+ Ongoing development of the Viterbi prototype.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Mar 12 07:50:10 UTC 2013 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.10:
+ New: Russian dictionaries.
+ Improve prefix, suffix handling and stemming.
+ 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.
+ 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Nov 6 12:46:36 UTC 2012 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.9:
+ Fix: Poor comma chocies: "The man, that you saw...".
+ 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Oct 13 13:29:16 UTC 2012 - zaitor@opensuse.org
- Drop hunspell-devel BuildRequires, as it is not used anyway.
- Drop hack for a obsolete openSUSE version, not needed anymore.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Oct 11 15:15:55 UTC 2012 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.8:
+ 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Oct 10 08:51:09 UTC 2012 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.7:
+ Fix configure to not bomb if c++ is not found.
+ Fix configure to explicitly require c++ only if sat-solver
enabled.
+ Dictionary: parse comma in "Monsters, Inc."
+ Update README about Viterbi algo.
+ Update MSVC6 project file.
+ Use enums for constituent display style.
+ Move command-line parser to its own directory.
+ Portability fixes for Windows.
+ 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Apr 28 14:34:25 UTC 2012 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.6:
+ fast-match.c: unroll recursive call into loop.
+ Fix accidental inclusion of internal header file from public
header file.
- Drop link-grammar-install-include.patch: No longer needed, as the
header is no longer referenced by the main header.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Apr 26 07:50:46 UTC 2012 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Add link-grammar-install-include.patch: install additional header
referenced by the main header, to fix build failure in abiword.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Apr 17 07:07:54 UTC 2012 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.5:
+ Remove several duplicate given names.
+ Remove several dozen duplicated idioms.
+ Some intransitive verbs are actually transitive in rare cases.
+ Clean up misc minor compiler warnings.
+ Use enum not int for the cost-model type.
+ Update the man page to reflect actual command usage.
+ Start using -O3 optimization for another 2% perf improvment.
+ Fix configure.in --enable/--disable flags.
+ New AM_SILENT_RULES for less noisy build.
+ Remove malloc-dbg.c from the MSVC9 project file.
- Add gcc-c++ BuildRequires: it is now needed for the build.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Jul 7 22:45:13 CEST 2011 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Stop using source service to download the tarball, as Factory
will move away from this.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Apr 29 16:30:57 UTC 2011 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.4:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 4.7.3:
+ 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!
- Use source services: download_url, recompress and set_version.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Jan 7 17:44:21 CET 2011 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.2:
+ 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Dec 13 09:57:19 CET 2010 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.1:
+ Fix: dictionary: Add "x" as synonym for "times".
+ Fix: if not set, then force-set locale to UTF-8 in the java
library.
+ 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"
+ Build fixes.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Sep 13 14:12:32 CEST 2010 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.7.0:
+ Fix: hunspell configuration on Fedora
+ 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 ditranstive: "paint the car
bright green".
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Jul 28 12:56:22 CEST 2010 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.6.7:
+ Fix configure handling of --enable-hunspell
+ Fix conjoined modifier phrases: "the black and white cat
sleeps."
+ Fix MSWindows+MingGW compilation issue.
+ Update msvc9 Microsoft Visual C 2008 project.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Mar 23 15:23:17 UTC 2010 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Add a hack for an error in libedit-devel's .pc file on openSUSE
11.2. It references to link libcurses instead of libncurses.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Mar 19 10:58:56 CET 2010 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.6.6:
+ Minor fixes to handling of units.
+ Fix: MSWindows+Cygwin/MingGW 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
- Drop patches (included upstream):
+ link-grammar-fix-parallel-build.patch
+ link-grammar-fix-warning.patch and
+ link-grammar-libedit-pkgconfig.patch
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Dec 3 10:32:29 CET 2009 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.6.5:
+ Fix: Superlatives without preceeding 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, its been superceeded.
+ 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: certian 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.
- Changes from version 4.6.4:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 4.6.3:
+ 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 possesives.
+ 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.
- Changes from version 4.6.2:
+ Fix: "come across as authoritiative".
+ 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 possesives.
+ Fix a (rare) crash in sentences with many conjunctions.
+ Fix a crash involving long sequences of UTF8 punctuation marks.
- Add aspell-devel BuildRequires.
- Add link-grammar-fix-warning.patch to fix warnings.
- Add link-grammar-fix-parallel-build.patch to fix parallel build.
- Add link-grammar-libedit-pkgconfig.patch to use pkg-config to
detect libedit flags.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Aug 31 20:35:29 CEST 2009 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.6.1:
+ Stop printing annoying warning when !vars are used.
+ Fix missing dict file units.2 problem
+ Fix compilation bug on FreeBSD.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sun Aug 30 10:50:34 CEST 2009 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.6.0:
+ Avoid used of bzero, add missing include directives.
+ Reclassify a number of "medical" prepostions 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Aug 27 14:51:09 CEST 2009 - dimstar@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.5.10:
+ Be sure to link with -lm
- Changes from version 4.5.9:
+ 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"
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Jul 20 11:18:01 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Update to version 4.5.8:
+ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Jun 9 14:30:40 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Update to version 4.5.7:
+ Fix 'make install' for windows
+ 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"
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed May 27 12:42:15 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Update to version 4.5.6:
+ 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?"
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri May 22 15:37:40 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Update to version 4.5.5:
+ Bugfix: crash for zero-length sentences.
- Changes from version 4.5.4:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 4.5.3:
+ Haste makes waste! Revert a recent 'fix'.
- Changes from version 4.5.2:
+ Use re-entrant version of mbtowc in all code.
+ Fix run-time breakage on Mac OSX and FreeBSD.
- Changes from version 4.5.1:
+ Fix Assertion failed: negative constituent length!
+ Fix build break for Mac OSX.
+ Force use of UTF-8 locale in the command-line tool.
- Changes from version 4.5.0:
+ 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.
- Changes from version 4.4.3:
+ 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 API are declared const char *
+ Add option to command-line client to print disjunct strings.
- Remove AutoReqProv: it's default now.
- Add hunspell-devel and libedit-devel BuildRequires, remove
libsatsolver-devel and sqlite3-devel BuildRequires.
- Pass --enable-corpus-stats to configure.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Jan 22 14:18:42 EST 2009 - hfiguiere@suse.de
- Update to 4.4.2
* See ChangeLog file for information.
- Remove link-grammar-strncat-param.diff that was upstreamed.
- Disable static. Remove *.la
- Remove libgcj-devel dependency do disable java
- Added BuildRequires for satsolver and sqlite3
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Apr 3 16:55:22 EDT 2008 - hfiguiere@suse.de
- Make rpmlint happier
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Apr 1 20:51:17 EDT 2008 - hfiguiere@suse.de
- Fix -devel package dependency
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Mar 31 23:18:28 EDT 2008 - hfiguiere@suse.de
- Initial package, version 4.3.4.
* Needed for AbiWord 2.6.0 (bnc#374240)
