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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