mark@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Mark Turner) (07/03/85)
TIRA at U Chicago is looking for a robust Natural Language
Processing system - actual code - it can obtain and install
on a 4.2BSD Unix system.
To elaborate: Many faculty members from Departments of
Library Science, English, Linguistics, Classics, Romance
Languages, etc. at U Chicago who currently work in searching and
processing natural language text data bases have now formed the
Textual Information Retrieval and Analysis (TIRA) research
center. The Department of Computer Science at U Chicago is
only a few years old, and although I understand that it would
be interested in hiring an Assistant Professor in AI/NLP,
it has not yet done so. Consequently, we lack a faculty
member who might focus his energies on installing and tuning
a Natural Language Processing System. Several of us are familiar
with NLP, though, and we have some programmers on staff.
So I am beginning to wonder how we might obtain, for academic
research purposes, the code and documentation for someone
else's NLP system, and install it here with relative ease,
to help us with semantic, grammatical, thematic, and morphological
parsing, in various Indo-European languages, principally
English, French, Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Spanish.
I would appreciate your responses.
Mark Turner
Department of English
U Chicago 60637
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