bozsahin@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Cem Bozsahin) (10/18/90)
a few questions about POPLOG:
- what kind of Prolog is supported? Edinburgh?
- any utilities for natural language processing? does it have
a DCG compiler ?
- does anybody know the e-mail address of the company (Integral Solutions
from UK)?
thanks,
Cem
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-- Cem Bozsahin bozsahin@ace.cs.ohiou.eduok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) (10/18/90)
In article <2170@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, bozsahin@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Cem Bozsahin) writes: > a few questions about POPLOG: > - what kind of Prolog is supported? Edinburgh? Yes. (Chris Mellish -- co-author of Clocksin & Mellish -- did a lot of the work on it.) > - any utilities for natural language processing? > does it have a DCG compiler ? What's a DCG compiler? Grammar rules are part of plain Prolog syntax; they aren't "compiled" into anything, they *are* Prolog. Nothing lacking them has a shadow of a trace of the beginnings of a right to call itself Edinburgh-compatible. Yes, PopLog does support DCGs. It also has other stuff for natural language processing. There is a package called ProGram for writing GPSG-style grammars (PopLog comes from Sussex University; guess where Gazdar is/was). I haven't had my hands on that, but the manual was impressive. > - does anybody know the e-mail address of the company (Integral Solutions > from UK)? Integral Solutions Ltd, Unit 3, Campbell Court, Bramley, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG26 5EG phone: +44 (256) 882 028 fax: +44 (256) 882 182 E-mail: isl@integ.uucp There is a great deal to be said in PopLog's praise. You will be very glad of the academic discount, however. -- Fear most of all to be in error. -- Kierkegaard, quoting Socrates.
bozsahin@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Cem Bozsahin) (10/19/90)
In article <4007@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: > What's a DCG compiler? Grammar rules are part of plain Prolog syntax; > they aren't "compiled" into anything, they *are* Prolog. Nothing lacking a DCG compiler compiles clauses. Grammar rules are not exactly Prolog; they have to be interpreted or compiled by Prolog before they can be executed. There is a DCG compiler (and an interpreter) in Pereira and Shieber's book ("Prolog and Natural Language Processing", 1987). > There is a great deal to be said in PopLog's praise. You will be > very glad of the academic discount, however. It looks like a very impressive package: ML, Lisp, Prolog, Pop-11 all bundled up. As for academic discount, i thought it was a typo. 85% discount is bound to lure a lot of people into it. -- -- Cem Bozsahin bozsahin@ace.cs.ohiou.edu
aarons@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) (10/22/90)
ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: > In article <2170@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, > bozsahin@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Cem Bozsahin) writes: > ............ > > - any utilities for natural language processing? > > does it have a DCG compiler ? > > ....... Nothing lacking > them has a shadow of a trace of the beginnings of a right to call itself > Edinburgh-compatible. Yes, PopLog does support DCGs. > > It also has other stuff for natural language processing. There is a > package called ProGram for writing GPSG-style grammars (PopLog comes > from Sussex University; guess where Gazdar is/was). I haven't had my > hands on that, but the manual was impressive. Version 14 will include a "contrib" directory containing free extras from users, which, among other things will contain all the program examples from the three books Gazdar, G., & C. Mellish Natural Language Processing in {POP-11, Lisp, Prolog} Addison Wesley, 1989. > > - does anybody know the e-mail address of the company (Integral Solutions > > from UK)? > > Integral Solutions Ltd, > Unit 3, > Campbell Court, > Bramley, > Basingstoke, > Hampshire RG26 5EG > > phone: +44 (256) 882 028 > fax: +44 (256) 882 182 > E-mail: isl@integ.uucp > For people in USA and Canada it may be useful to have the following contact address: Prof Robin Popplestone Dept. of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003, USA or Prof Robin Popplestone Computable Functions Inc., 35 South Orchard Drive, Amherst, MA 01002, USA Phone(413) 253-7637 Email pop@cs.umas.edu Aaron Sloman, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Univ of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, England EMAIL aarons@cogs.sussex.ac.uk