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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Object Oriented Prolog question
Message-ID: <4835@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 27 Feb 91 07:27:44 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.093713.4151@ecrc.de> <1991Feb26.175218.9997@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1991Feb26.175218.9997@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, mourad@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Shibl Mourad) writes:
> I am looking for an Object Oriented Prolog to develop a Natural
> Languages application.

I am very interested in the application of Prolog to Natural Language
processing.  (I'm teaching a course on it.)  Just as a matter of
curiosity, why on earth do you want an *Object-Oriented* Prolog
(whatever that is)?  "Pure" Prolog fits rather nicely with the
declarative formalisms used by linguists (and the way that a
"coroutining" system like NU Prolog or SICStus lets constraints
from several levels interleave can be rather useful).  PATR is an
example of the kind of thing I have in mind.  Objects are things with
state, side-effects elevated to a principle.  Isn't that rather a bad
fit with linguistics?

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