[Attempto] Uses of ACE Attempto product base

[Tobias Kuhn]

Hi Patrick,

> I would like to understand, beyond the ability to translate from ACE into Prolog, if any work is being undertaken, or projects have been set in place, to realise opportunities, to use it in other areas.

Note that ACE texts are not translated into Prolog programs, but just 
into a representation that can be expressed as Prolog terms. But there 
is also an XML representation.

> I am interested in its potential use as:
>
> 1. A generalised interface to translate ACE structures into other languages, such as Python, Lisp or CLIPS.

Do you ask for another ACE parser implemented in another programming 
language like Python, or should ACE texts be translated into Python 
programs? These are two completely different issues.

> 2. The creation of a LINUX Shell product based on ACE.

See the ACE parser "APE" that can be downloaded on the Attempto page.

> I am constructing a translation model to translate phrases from English into German. Operational is a platform based on sentence segmentation, phrase type markup and translation using a dictionary and glossaries I am building.

You should have a look at the work of Aarne Ranta, especially his 
Grammatical Framework (GF). For example the following paper:

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-448/paper3.pdf


Cheers,
Tobias