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Date:Mon Feb 9 11:29:48 1995 
Subject:WWW forms and prolog queries 
From:Ron Brasington 
Volume-ID:950213.03 

A few years ago I developed a prolog interface to a linguistic database 
which I have since been using for teaching (and inevitably modifying from 
time to time).  Because the system was written in LPA MacProlog, which 
has excellent menu and dialog handling abilities, it was possible to 
provide a friendly front end for users with no prolog experience while 
still allowing anyone capable of writing a raw query to do so.  

Over the last year or so, it has become obvious that the capabilities of 
WWW forms would allow me create an interface with similar functionality 
if only I could use a form to pass a query over some set of relations to 
a prolog system and receive the appropriate response.  From the end users 
point of view, such an interface would clearly have the advantage of 
being platform independent.  

Why am I posting this here?  Well, on our local Unix system I have access 
to Poplog but I have no practical experience of the environment.  Is what 
I would like to do anywhere near feasible - now or soon?   Or is it 
perhaps possible with some different implementation of prolog?

In hope,

Ron Brasington.
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Ron Brasington
Department of Linguistic Science
Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences
University of Reading
Whiteknights
PO Box 218
READING RG6 2AA, UK
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