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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: POPLOG
Keywords: capabilities, performance, e-mail contact
Message-ID: <4007@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 18 Oct 90 05:54:07 GMT
References: <2170@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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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.