In quasi-historical order: Original Authors: Davy Temperley: http://theory.esm.rochester.edu/temperley/ Daniel Sleator: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/ John Lafferty: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lafferty/ Vast amounts of additional work has been done by many different linguists and software developers. The current lead developers are Linas Vepstas: http://linas.org/ Amir Plivatsky <amirpli_at_gmail.com> Arabic dictionaries were provided by Warren Casbeer and Jon Dehdari Farsi dictionaries were provided by Jon Dehdari The SAT parser code was developed by Filip Maric <filipmaric_at_gmail.com> as a part of the 2008 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project for OpenCog. Russian dictionaries were provided by Sergey Protasov <svp_at_tj.ru> Turkish dictionaries by: Can John Bruce <can.bruce_at_yale.edu> Turkish sharply revised: Tatiana Batura, Maria Mitkovskaya, Natalya Semenova Indonesian dictionaries were provided by: Hendy Irawan (ceefour) Kazakh dictionaries from: Tatiana Batura, Aigerim Bakiyeva, Aigerim Yerimbetova ------------------------------------------------------------------ Some of the people who have contributed patches and fixes include: (In alphabetical order) Artem Gayardo-Matrosov Bill Hayes <bhayes84_at_gmail.com> Borislav Iordanov <borislav.iordanov_at_gmail.com> Valery Kholodkov <valery_at_grid.net.ru> Vikas N Kumar <walburn_at_gmail.com> Dom Lachowicz <domlachowicz_at_gmail.com> Per Larsson <tucker_at_algonet.se> Stephen Leibowitz <librestephen_at_gmail.com> Marc Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net> Evgenii Philippov <efilippov_at_gmail.com> Sergey Protasov <svp_at_tj.ru> Sampo Pyysalo <smp_at_is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> René Rhéaume <rene.rheaume_at_gmail.com> Lian Ruiting <lianlian1022_at_gmail.com> Murilo Saraiva de Queiroz <muriloq_at_gmail.com> Fridrich Strba <fridrich.strba_at_bluewin.ch> Simon Stuart <kraven_at_greycascade.com> Peter Szolovits <psz_at_mit.edu> Dimitri Timofeev <dtim@kalami.org> Alexander Tkachuk <alexander.tkachuk_at_gmail.com> Vincent Untz <vuntz_at_opensuse.org> Max Vyaznikov http://myclerk.ru Bruce Wilcox <gowilcox_at_gmail.com>