Record of CHANGES in the GMA Package In 2.1: * Reorganization of the tools contained with the package. Several tools were moved to their respective packages (axis,train). * Removal of precision limitations that were imposed in past versions to ensure consistency with the older Perl based GMA codeset. In 2.0: * GMA has been ported to java! The porting process revealed several bugs in the former Perl version, which have been fixed. Requires java version 1.4.x or higher. * GMA now has a webpage, and an online bugzilla-based bug reporting system. Resources such as tools, config files, stop lists, etc., are no longer distributed with GMA. Instead they are separately downloadable from the website. * All language file manipulation is now done at the byte level, rather than the character level, to avoid encoding issues. * GMA no longer performs any text normalization. Processes such as lowercasing and diacritic stripping have been factored out into axis generators. * GMA no longer accepts axis files with POS tags. * Implemented traditional switch syntax using preceding "-" or "+", primarily for use with the condor java universe. * Added capability to use a serialized tralex: if the translation lexicon file ends in .serial GMA will assume you are supplying it with a serialized file. All other files are assumed to be plain text. To put a translation lexicon into serial format use the program available on the website utilities and in the tools section of this package. In 1.3: * Added auxiliaries to the English stoplist * Corrected the overflow errors in GCalign * fixed base case in string_lcs in * tweaked point disambiguation logic in * added warning for invalid tralex entries in In 1.2.1: Fixed some parameter names in older config files. In 1.2: * The "encumbered" part of GMA has been reimplemented, so the whole package is now open source. A bunch of file and directory renaming resulted. * HOWTO slightly updated and clarified. * GMA no longer assumes that the user has write permissions in the GMA directory tree, so it uses another location for temporary files. * GMA no longer assumes that it is being run from the directory where it lives. It uses environment variables to find its sub-scripts. In 1.1.2: * Minor correction in documentation. * Added default helper to standard package. * Set default GMApath in validation testsuite. In 1.1.1: * Small rearrangement in directory layout * Added code and data for validation test. In 1.1: * Added `crnl2nl` to util/ * Added troubleshooting section to HOWTO. * Got rid of non-license; added simple T's & C's to README. * Minor documentation updates. * Moved mailing lists to NYU. * Made GMA.csh a bit more flexible, as per Resnik's suggestions.