Version 4.8.0 of the Link Grammar Parser is now available. This is the start of a new version series, containing an important change to the English language dictionary. Three new link types are introduced WV, CV and IV. These are used to connect the left-wall to the primary verb of the sentence (WV), to connect the ruling clause to the primary verb of a dependent clause (CV), and a similar link for certain infinitive verbs (IV). The goal of these links is to make it easier to locate verbs, and thus to provide a more direct mapping from the link-grammar formalism to a dependency parse (as dependency parses always put the verb at the root of a sentence). These are not the first links that explicitly indicate root verbs: several other link types already play this role: The AF, CP, Eq, COq and B links already play this role. The new WV, CV and IV links round out this capability and do so in a very general form. See http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/dict/section-WV.html for details. With this release, we expect that all (non-auxiliary) verbs in a sentence will be linked either to the wall, or to a controlling parent. We also expect there to be some additional fixes and tightening-up to occur in future releases, especially in regards to comparative sentences. This release also includes a variety of fixes to the Java API/server. In addition, some ancient, deprecated C code was removed. -------------------- The link-grammar homepage: http://www.abiword.org/projects/link-grammar/ Download: http://www.abiword.org/downloads/link-grammar/4.7.9/link-grammar-4.7.9.tar.gz WHAT IS LINK GRAMMAR? The Link Grammar Parser is a syntactic parser of English (and other languages as well), based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax. Given a sentence, the system assigns to it a syntactic structure, which consists of a set of labelled links connecting pairs of words. The parser also produces a "constituent" (Penn tree-bank style phrase tree) representation of a sentence (showing noun phrases, verb phrases, etc.). The RelEx extension provides dependency-parse output. CHANGELOG: Version 4.8.0 (24 October 2013) * Fix "he answered yes" * Support bulleted, numbered lists. * New link types from Lian Ruiting, for identifying the head-verb. * Java: fix bug when totaling WordNet word-sense score. * Java: add info to README about using the JSON parse server. * Java: remove many deprecated functions. * C API: remove some deprecated functions. * Java: fix silent failure when library is not found. * Java: Add support for fetching the ASCII-art diagram string. * Java: Fix insane language selection initialization. * Fix: "The pig runs SLOWER than the cat." * Fix: conjoined superlatives: "... the longest and the farthest." * Fix: "inside" can be used with conjunction: "near or inside..." * Fix: conjoined question modifiers: "exactly when and precisely where..." * Fix: issue 59: crash/corruption when dictionary opened twice. * Fix: assorted exclamations!