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				 SURGE 1.2
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SURGE: Semantic Unification Realization Grammar of English.
This directory contains SURGE Version 1.2.  It is dated June 15, 1993.
SURGE is a large grammar programmed in FUF 5.2. 

There is no formal documentation for this grammar.  A partial description
is provided in [Elhadad 92] (available as thesis.ps.Z in the same ftp sites
where FUF is available).  To get an idea of how this works, inspect
carefully the file ir.l which contains many (~ 400) examples of input
specifications. 

A prototype SURGE 2.0 is also available in file surge2.0.tar.Z.  Version
2.0 differs mainly from 1.2 in: 
- An extended coverage of circumstancials.
- A cleaned up and extended mood system for clauses.
- Some new categories such as address and date.
Surge 2.0 should remain compatible with all the input specifications
prepared for 1.2.



