The Nu Echo team is proud to announce the availability of NuGram 2.1.

The noteworthy new features in this release are:

• Enhanced sentence generation tool (NuGram IDE)
  The sentence generation algorithm has been further improved and a new strategy (Rule examples) has been added. Sentences can now be generated from specific sentence patterns. Also, the generation process can be stopped.
• New sentence explorer (NuGram IDE)
  The user interface of the sentence explorer has been completely changed. It is now much more intuitive and easy to use. It also allows sentence patterns to be added to the sentence generation tool.
• Semantic interpretation optimizations
  All supported semantic tag languages based on ECMAScript have been optimized (compiled scripts are now properly cached). This dramatically increases the performance of the coverage test tool.
• Complete rewrite of the underlying parsing algorithm
  The algorithm that matches sentences with the grammar rules has been completely rewritten. It is now much more efficient, in terms of speed and memory consumption.
• Post-processing API (NuGram Server SDK / Professional Edition only)
  NuGram Server now provides an API to implement and deploy application-specific post-processing routines.
• Initial support for different target ASR engines (NuGram IDE)
  It is now possible to specify the target ASR engine in the preferences. This affects the way words in grammars are normalized, and also how grammars are converted to GrXML.
• Small enhancements to the ABNF dynamic grammar templating language
  The templating language now supports new forms, like optional grammar headers.
• Many small improvements and bug fixes

The free Basic Edition can be downloaded directly from within your Eclipse environment. Simply follow the download instructions. Or contact us for the Professional Edition.

Please, let us know what you think of these new features!