lamy%utai%toronto.CSNET@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Jean-Francois Lamy) (03/14/86)
Conference Pierre Robillard - "Pierre Robillard" Lecture
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle
Universite de Montreal
Prolog III, la prochaine etape pour Prolog
(Prolog III, the next step for Prolog)
ALAIN COLMERAUER
Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Luminy, Marseilles, France
20 March 1986 - 14:00
room M-415, Main Building, 2900 boul. Edouard-Montpetit
During a three year stay as a professor at Universite de Montreal in the
late '60s, Alain Colmerauer directed the TAUM automatic translation project.
In that setting he developped a formalism for natural language analysis and
generation called Q-systems. This formalism was later used to implement the
Meteo system, which is still in daily use to translate weather forecasting
bulletins from English to French.
Returning in France in 1971, he continued his research on natural language
understanding and knowledge representation. He is best known for the original
design of the programming language Prolog.
Alain Colmerauer will speak on a new extension to Prolog, Prolog III.
(Note: this talk will be given in French)