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Introduction

The Name ``Malaga'' has two different meanings: on the one hand, it is the name of a special purpose programming language, namely a language to implement grammars for natural languages. On the other hand, it is the name of a program package for development of Malaga Grammars and testing them by analysing words and sentences.

``Malaga'' is an acronym for ``Merely a Left- Associative-Grammar Application''. We will explain the formalism of Left Associative Grammars (LAG) later.

The program package ``Malaga'' has been developed by Björn Beutel in the ``Abteilung für Computerlinguistik der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg'', Germany. There is a number of predecessors: The program packages LAMA, IMP, MAGIC, MOSAIC and LAP, all of them being developed at the same department. They are all based on LAG.

Gerald Schüller has implemented parts of the original debugger, the original Emacs Malaga mode and the original Tree and Variable output.

Meanwhile (1999) there exist morphology grammars for some real-world languages, for example for the German, Italian, English and Korean language.

If you have questions, criticism or suggestions for the improvement of Malaga, you can write an e-mail letter to malaga@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de or write to the following address:

Bjoern Beutel
Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Abteilung fuer Computerlinguistik
Bismarckstrasse 12
D-91054 Erlangen
Germany


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