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From: mourad@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Shibl Mourad)
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Subject: Re: Object Oriented Prolog question
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Date: 27 Feb 91 22:35:50 GMT
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In article <4835@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>> I am looking for an Object Oriented Prolog to develop a Natural
>> Languages application.
>
> Just as a matter of curiosity, why on earth do you want an *Object-Oriented* 
> Prolog (whatever that is)?
 
The application involves information retreival through interviewing a human expert; the required information could be represented by a hierarchy of objects. On the surface it seems useful to have the advantages of Prolog for NL processing combined with an Object Oriented representation.