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1 Introduction

The Name “Malaga” is used with 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”.

The program package “Malaga” has been developed by Björn Beutel. Gerald Schüller has implemented parts of the debugger, parts of the Emacs Malaga mode, and the original Tree and Variable output via TCL/Tk.

So far, morphology grammars for several natural languages have been developed with Malaga, including the Albanian, Bulgarian, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Korean and Spanish language.