Little LFG for Windows System

[Avery.Andrews at anu.edu.au]

LFGW is a quick port to Windows of an earlier system LFG-PC, which ran
under Dos; the main claim to fame of both of these systems is ease of
use and modest resource requirements (LFG-PC will actually run and was
originally developed on an XT-class machine with no hard drive; the
Windows version is more demanding because it is in a real Prolog rather than 
PDC Prolog).  These virtues come at the price of considerable limitations
in the size of grammars and kinds of features supported.  In fact not even
long-distance dependencies, because I've never noticed that students
learning syntax (the target users) have any trouble with this, while
basic phrase-structure and grammatical relations seem to cause a lot of
trouble.

I'm actually rather unsure of how far to push it; after all if you want
something comprehensive there's GWB and other such things around, I see
no point in trying to compete with them.  Anyway the web-page is:

  http://www-csli.stanford.edu/users/andrews/lfgw.html

  Avery.Andrews at anu.edu.au



> Hi Nik,
> I think Avery Andrews can tell us exactly what it is. I figure the 'w'
> there stands for workbench or something of the sort. In any case, I am just
> looking for anything lfg-like to try my hands on. And I have access to just
> a macIntosh environment so I wanted to know if there was a MacIntosh
> version of whatever it is.
> 
> At 15:48 3/3/98, Nik Gisborne wrote:
> >Hey Adams, what is the littel lfgw system?  Is it a kind of parser?
> >
> >Nik
> >
> >At 08:07 AM 3/3/98 +0900, you wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>Does anyone know if there is a MacIntosh version of what is being described
> >>here by Avery ? I would be very interested in that.
> >>Best wishes,
> >>Adams
> >>
> >>
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