Text Understanding in LILOG: Integrating Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. Final Report on the IBM Germany LILOG-Project

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The IBM project LILOG presented in this volume represents a fundamental stepbeyond computer science as hitherto understood. It was a successful project in every respect and has shed light on conjectured basic interrelations

between knowledge processing and language definition.

Knowledge processing is strongly coupled to the natural language

used, and for applied knowledge processing an information base is neededwhich defines the semantic contents and interrelations of the

language. The LILOG project was an implementation of an information basein the German language. A set of tools was also developed to work with the system, including structured man-machine interfaces using natural language, inference algorithms, and a complete subsystem to acquire and store the required knowledge. The LILOG project started in 1985 and a functional

system was demonstrated in 1991. The project involved approximately 200 of the scientists working in Germany in the fields of computational

linguistics, natural language understanding systems, and artificial

intelligence. The project proves that a cooperative project between

universities and industry can produce useful results both in pure research and in implemented methods and tools.