Natural language processing with LOLITA

摘要

The ability of computers to process information and communicate with users has been severely limited by their inability to analyse or generate free format written or spoken language. Whereas the techniques needed to deal with highly constrained 'formal' languages are well understood, the techniques for dealing with written text or spoken word have yet to mature. The processing of such information is commonly referred to as Natural Language Processing (NLP). The LOLITA~* system is a prototype NLP system that can analyse and generate written English. The potential for such a system is enormous and is demonstrated by some sample applications which are built into the current prototype.