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From: finin@prc.unisys.com (Tim Finin)
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Subject: PRATTFALL - A Machine Translation System in Prolog
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Date: 8 Feb 89 17:44:27 GMT
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Organization: Unisys - Paoli Research Center   Paoli, PA
			      AI SEMINAR
		     UNISYS PAOLI RESEARCH CENTER
				   
				   
		    Pundit's First French Lesson:
	       The PRATTFALL Machine-Translation Module
				   
			 Francois-Michel Lang
		     Unisys Paoli Re
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This talk describes PRATTFALL (Pundit Reads And Translates Texts into
French, ALbeit Loosely), a machine-translation module built on top of
the PUNDIT natural-language text-understanding system. Both PRATTFALL
and PUNDIT are implemented entirely in Quintus Prolog; PRATTFALL is
based on Michael McCord's LMT system.

There are five principal components in PRATTFALL, each of which is
described in turn: 

        * Transfer from English to French
        * Restructuring to conform to French syntax
        * Assembling lexical items
        * Inflection of lexical items
        * Cleanup of inflected lexical items

The transfer component is implemented using a definite-clause grammar
modelled after one of the components of PUNDIT's SPQR module.
Familiarity with LMT, PUNDIT, and machine translation in general is
helpful, but not necessary.

				   
		  2:00 pm, Weds., February 15, 1989
		      Cafeteria Conference Room
		     Unisys Paoli Research Center
		      Route 252 and Central Ave.
			    Paoli PA 19311
				   
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