ANNOUNCE: Link-Grammar version 5.5.0 is now available

[Linas Vepstas]

Version 5.5.0 of link-grammar has been released.  It contains several important bug-fixes for opencog users.

* The previous version accidentally broke the opencog API. This version fixes it.

* Linkages generated by the "ANY" random parser were not actually being randomized.  This is now fixed.  (Bug reported by Andres.)

* Poorly-formated dictionaries no longer report errors.  (Bug reported by Alexei/Anton)

The complete list of changes is:

 * Fix accidental API breakage that impacts OpenCog.
 * Fix memory leak when parsing with null links.
 * Python bindings: Add an optional parse-option argument to parse().
 * Add an extended version API and use it in "link-parser --version".
 * Fix spurious errors if the last dict line is a comment.
 * Fix garbage report if EOF encountered in a quoted dict word.
 * Fix garbage report if whitespace encountered in a quoted dict word.
 * Add a per-command help in link-parser.
 * Add a command line completion in link-parser.
 * Enable build of word-graph printing support by default.
 * Add idiom lookup in link-parser's dict lookup command (!!idiom_here).
 * Improve handling of quoted words (e.g. single words in "scare quotes").
 * Fix random selection of linkages so that it's actually random.

You can download link-grammar from
http://www.abisource.com/downloads/link-grammar/current/

The website is here:
https://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/

WHAT IS LINK GRAMMER?
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.

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