SimpleNLG-gl is a simple Java API designed to facilitate the generation of natural language texts in Galician.
It is a trilingual English/Spanish/Galician adaptation of the SimpleNLG v4.4.8 library, following the structure used in SimpleNLG-EnFr. The original SimpleNLG library was developed for the English language in the Department of Computing Science of the University of Aberdeen. SimpleNLG-EnFr is its bilingual English-French adaptation, developed at the Université de Montreal.
SimpleNLG-gl was developed and is maintained by researchers of the Intelligent Systems Group of the Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, within the projects TIN2014-56633-C3-1-R and TIN2017-84796-C2-1-R, funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and ERDF/FEDER funds. It was also supported (2017-2018) by the Rede "Tecnoloxías e Análise de Datos Lingüísticos (TECANDALI)" (Ref. 2016-PG080).
For information on how to use SimpleNLG-gl, see the Wiki and the API.
Being based on SimpleNLG and SimpleNLG-EnFr, SimpleNLG-ES is licensed under the terms and conditions of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) Version 1.1.
The lexicon used in SimpleNLG-gl is generated from the FreeLing dictionary which is licensed under the terms and conditions of the Lesser General Public License For Linguistic Resources.
The SimpleNLG-GL library was presented at the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2018), held in Tilburg (5-8 november 2018). If you use SimpleNLG-GL in any project, please quote the work where it is described:
Andrea Cascallar-Fuentes, Alejandro Ramos-Soto, and Alberto Bugarín Diz. 2018. Adapting SimpleNLG to Galician language. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 67–72, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI: 10.18653/v1/W18-6507.
@inproceedings{cascallar-fuentes-etal-2018-adapting,
title = "Adapting {S}imple{NLG} to {G}alician language",
author = "Cascallar-Fuentes, Andrea and
Ramos-Soto, Alejandro and
Bugar{\'\i}n Diz, Alberto",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation",
month = nov,
year = "2018",
address = "Tilburg University, The Netherlands",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-6507",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-6507",
pages = "67--72",
abstract = "In this paper, we describe SimpleNLG-GL, an adaptation of the linguistic realisation SimpleNLG library for the Galician language. This implementation is derived from SimpleNLG-ES, the English-Spanish version of this library. It has been tested using a battery of examples which covers the most common rules for Galician.",
}
For more information about SimpleNLG, visit its Github page or the SimpleNLG discussion list.
If you have other questions about SimpleNLG, please contact Professor Ehud Reiter via email: ehud.reiter@arria.com.
The current version of SimpleNLG-EnFr is V1.1. SimpleNLG-EnFr can realize text in both English and French in the same document. The French part covers practically all the grammar in Le français fondamental (1er degré) and has a 3871 entry lexicon covering the échelle orthographique Dubois Buyse.