Re: newbie question about Prolog / FOPC / NLU



Torkel Franzen wrote:
> "Gary Leighton" <leightongary@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I thought that PROLOG was frequently used for natural language
> > understanding.
>
> I think you mean, rather, for implementing natural language parsing.
> Prolog has indeed been used for this (DCG is a convenient tool), but
> this is not a matter of expressing statements of natural language
> as Prolog clauses.

OK, I think I understand now. I had been under the impression that
Prolog was an implementation of fopc (or a subset of fopc) with a
different syntax.

I guess what I need then, is a good text on how to do NLP with Prolog.

Thanks for your help Torkel.

.

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