theppl (pronounced "the-people") is a (p)robabilistic (p)rogramming (l)anguage/platform. It is designed to overcome the fundamental problem with probabilistic programming: the difficulty of scaling it up to real world applications.
To achieve this, it relies on modularity: Developers can hierarchically compose modules (aka templates) into larger modules. Submodules can be designed in declarative ways (say, through MLNs), tailor-made (say, a parser using a dynamic program) or downloaded from other module providers.
Modules can be orchestrated in various ways: pipelines, as joint potentials, in isolation etc.
Modularity allows developers to (a) inject specific inference know-how if needed, (b) design and test their system in a divide-and-conquer manner, and (c) reuse existing components.
theppl uses sbt for building and installation. If you don't have sbt on your machine, get it here. Then run:
sbt publish-local
Now the theppl library is installed locally and can be used by adding dependency to your sbt/maven builds.