finin@prc.unisys.com (Tim Finin) (02/09/89)
Some newsgroups and mailing lists (e.g. AILIST, NL-KR) have
traditionally carried announcements of seminars, colloquia and other
public talks. These have been offered not so much to inform potential
attendees as to provide a source of information about current
research. I've found this to be very informative and a good way to
keep abreast of who is doing what where.
In the general AI area, AILIST has carried these announcements for as
long as I can remember. With the apparent demise of AILIST, perhaps
comp.ai should serve as the vehicle for this information (although
there is only a partial overlap in audience).
With this in mind, I offer the following announcement and will look
forward to comments on the idea of the comp.ai readership submitting
such announcements to comp.ai.
Tim
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AI SEMINAR
UNISYS PAOLI RESEARCH CENTER
Pundit's First French Lesson:
The PRATTFALL Machine-Translation Module
Francois-Michel Lang
Unisys Paoli Research Center
(lang@prc.unisys.com)
This talk describes PRATTFALL (Pundit Reads And Translates Texts into
French, ALbeit Loosely), a machine-translation module built on top of
the PUNDIT natural-language text-understanding system. Both PRATTFALL
and PUNDIT are implemented entirely in Quintus Prolog; PRATTFALL is
based on Michael McCord's LMT system.
There are five principal components in PRATTFALL, each of which is
described in turn:
* Transfer from English to French
* Restructuring to conform to French syntax
* Assembling lexical items
* Inflection of lexical items
* Cleanup of inflected lexical items
The transfer component is implemented using a definite-clause grammar
modelled after one of the components of PUNDIT's SPQR module.
Familiarity with LMT, PUNDIT, and machine translation in general is
helpful, but not necessary.
2:00 pm, Weds., February 15, 1989
Cafeteria Conference Room
Unisys Paoli Research Center
Route 252 and Central Ave.
Paoli PA 19311
-- non-Unisys visitors who are interested in attending should --
-- send email to finin@prc.unisys.com or call 215-648-7446 --
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