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From: aarons@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: POPLOG (& Contact address for USA & Canada)
Keywords: capabilities, performance, e-mail contact
Message-ID: <3652@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Oct 90 19:25:41 GMT
References: <2170@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <4007@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Organization: School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, Sussex Univ. UK
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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