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+MingGW 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/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
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, 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: 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 windows (abi bug 12049)
* Fix multi-threaded bug when TRACK_SPACE_USAGE is defined.
* Add './configure --enable-mudflap' just for fun...
* Fix: "Walk tall", "Think quick"
* Fix: "... part no. 1234-56A"
* Fix regression from BioLG merge: "It cost $14 million."
* Fix come/came: "The dog came running..."
* Fix year abbreviations: "He drove a souped-up '57 Chevy"
* Fix sit, stand: "The dog stood still"
* Fix act up, act out: "He is acting out." "The motor is acting up."
* Fix notoriously, poorly: "The store was poorly stocked".
* Fix: "strong" can be adverb
* Add support for recognizing basic time zones during parsing.
* Fix: verbs acting as adjectival modifiers: "a very politicized deal."
* Fix: ".. nearly so well", "...almost so well".
* Fix financial ranges: "It will cost $10 million to $20 million to build."
* Expand handling of capitalized words that appear in entity names.
* Expand the list of characters that are recognized as quotes.
* Support usage of yes, no as sentence openers.
* Better support for directives, commands.
* Fix: "Ash Wednesday", "Fat Tuesday", etc.
* Fix: post-verbal adj: "she wiped the table dry"
* Fix: wish: "she wished me a happy birthday"
Version 4.5.6 (24 May 2009)
* 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 â where straight quote can be used.
* recognize and explicitly ignore emoticon types.
* Include MSVC6 build files.
* Apply patch needed for Ruby bindings.
* fix: "Where did they come from?", per Viswanath IIIT
* fix: "Where did they go to?"
* fix: "It gives me peace of mind."
* fix: many, many incorrectly identified mass nouns.
* fix: ladle.v "molten hot" "piping hot"
* fix: "It's a shame that...", "The crux of the plan is that..."
* Performance improvements (about 11%) to prunce.c from Bruce Wilcox
* fix: "He eats with me nightly."
* Add new public api function: linkgrammar_get_version()
* MSVC9 build files from Borislav Iordanov
* Java network-efficient client-server classes from Borislav Iordanov
Version 4.3.9 (8 October 2008) includes the following changes:
* Issue 13: "John is altogether amazingly quick."
* Nonstandard spelling "unequivocably"
* Dictionary fixes for 'marginally', etc. "That one is marginally better"
* Issue 7: Dictionary fixes for 'done': "I am done working"
* dictionary entries for walk-up drivethru car-wash
* dictionary: "I am through being mad", "It was a through flight", etc.
* Issue 11: "You are doing well"
* Issue 3: "I asked Jim a question", "I told Jim a story"
* Passive subjects with objects: "I was told that crap, too" "...was asked..."
* Fixes for Apple Mac OSX (crash on non-executable stack)
* Early version of Filip Maric's boolean SAT solver
* fix: "He talked quietly of revolt."
* fix: "It consists mostly of sand.", "He talks, mostly of revolution."
* fix: "He talked mostly to Ann.", "He talks a lot."
* fix: than_usual: "He is taking longer than usual."
* fix: a batch of new verbs from Roman Khlupin
* fix: Fix crash on Apple Macintosh by correctly identifying the platform.
* fix: "San Gabriel" "Block Island" "Great Southern Bank" "de la Rente"
* fix: "I biked Johnson Creek."
Version 4.3.8 (14 August 2008) includes the following changes:
* Build fixes for Windows (missing bzero and thread-safe rand)
* Fix several mem leaks, one in the Java jni code.
* Fix crash of java6 jvm, due to blown stack limits.
Version 4.3.7 (8 August 2008) includes the following changes:
* Expanded list of given names to include those from 2005 US Census
* Export a new java jni function, to get the inflected word.
* Add a TO+ connector so that "I tend to agree" parses correctly.
* Makefile fixes for 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 (â) 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 windows, so stub it out.
* Fix crash in constituent output, bug #22 in googlecode bugtacker.
* Some small steps taken to eventually make library thread-safe.
* There are three constituent string styles, enable all three.
* Make the command-line flag errors less cyrptic.
* 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 Jaunary 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 "Expresso 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
recognizition 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
