Book Overview

This book's main goal is to show readers how to use the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky, called Universal Grammar, to represent English, French, and German on a computer using the Prolog computer language.

Approach and Content

In so doing, it presents a follow-the-dots approach to natural language processing, linguistic theory, artificial intelligence, and expert systems.

Objective

The basic idea is to introduce meaningful answers to significant problems involved in representing human language data on a computer.