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 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 (’) 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