[SIGCIS-Members] History of Prolog

[Ted Pedersen]

I might suggest Prolog is still showing signs of life. The rather famous
IBM Watson system that played on Jeopardy a few years back included a
Prolog component that was non-trivial and quite interesting.

https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/2011/03/natural-language-processing-with-prolog-in-the-ibm-watson-system/

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Dr. Ted Pedersen
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 11:54 AM Paul McJones <paul at mcjones.org> wrote:

> On Mar 30, 2022, at 8:19 AM, christine mitchell <christletine at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I have a report on the systèmes-Q / Q-systems Colmerauer wrote in Montreal
> if anyone is interested. Q-systems became the foundation of a system called
> TAUM-MÉTÉO, used to translate Canadian government weather reports – used
> for 20 years. I can't answer questions about Q-systems themselves, but am
> familiar with the project in Montreal. (TAUM – Projet de traduction
> automatique de l'Université de Montréal.)
>
>
>
> Christine,
>
> A scan of Colmerauer’s original Q-systems report is online at his personal
> web site:
>
>
>    - Alain Colmerauer. Les systèmes-q ou un formalisme pour analyser et
>    synthétiser des phrases sur ordinateur. Internal publication no 43,
>    Département d'Informatique, Université de Montréal, September 1970. Online
>    at alain.colmerauer.free.fr
>    <http://alain.colmerauer.free.fr/alcol/ArchivesPublications/SystemesQ/SystemesQ.pdf>
>
>
> After coming across Brian Harris’s article I have been trying (so far
> unsuccessfully) to find a copy of the 1971 TAUM report:
>
>
>    - Alain Colmerauer, editor. TAUM 71. Montreal: Projet de Traduction
>    Automatique de l'Université de Montréal, January 1971, 223 pages.
>       - Brian Harris and Laurent Belisle. POLYGRAM grapho-morphology
>       analyzer for English. In TAUM 71, pp. 46-105.
>
>
> Here’s the Q-systems section of the web site I mentioned in my previous
> message:
>
> http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/prolog/l#Montreal
>
>
>
> Paul
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