Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!mark From: mark@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Mark Turner) Newsgroups: net.ai,net.nlang Subject: WANTED: NLP system Message-ID: <514@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 13:26:23 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.514 Posted: Wed Jul 3 13:26:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 05:38:18 EDT Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.ai:2855 net.nlang:3323 TIRA at U Chicago is looking for a robust Natural Language Processing system - actual code - it can obtain and install on a 4.2BSD Unix system. To elaborate: Many faculty members from Departments of Library Science, English, Linguistics, Classics, Romance Languages, etc. at U Chicago who currently work in searching and processing natural language text data bases have now formed the Textual Information Retrieval and Analysis (TIRA) research center. The Department of Computer Science at U Chicago is only a few years old, and although I understand that it would be interested in hiring an Assistant Professor in AI/NLP, it has not yet done so. Consequently, we lack a faculty member who might focus his energies on installing and tuning a Natural Language Processing System. Several of us are familiar with NLP, though, and we have some programmers on staff. So I am beginning to wonder how we might obtain, for academic research purposes, the code and documentation for someone else's NLP system, and install it here with relative ease, to help us with semantic, grammatical, thematic, and morphological parsing, in various Indo-European languages, principally English, French, Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Spanish. I would appreciate your responses. Mark Turner Department of English U Chicago 60637 >ihnp4!gargoyle!puck!mark