On Mar 30, 2022, at 8:19 AM, christine mitchell <christletine@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

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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