Norbert, thank you for your interest. Given to the (very) limited domain of the contract rules I hope to get a working prototype (of the part involving ACE) in some day of work. Of course I'll stick to Prolog for the mundane details, concentrating on APE interfacing (but there are so many interesting things in your work, I'm exploring...) l will surely keep you (and the list) informed of my efforts (and results, I hope). bye Carlo <blockquote> ----Messaggio originale---- Da: fuchs@ifi.uzh.ch Data: 20-lug-2010 1.49 PM A: "ccape@tin.it"<ccape@tin.it> Cc: "SWI-Prolog mailing list"<swi-prolog@iai.uni-bonn.de>, "Kaarel Kaljurand"<kaljurand@gmail.com>, "Tobias Kuhn"<kuhntobias@gmail.com>, "attempto"<attempto@lists.ifi.uzh.ch> Ogg: [SWIPL] Bridge, SWI Prolog and ACE On 20 Jul 2010, at 10:46, ccape@tin.it wrote: > ... I'm going to rewrite a small program (handling of contract bridge tournaments, actually used) using SWI-Prolog, > and extend it with game logic, something I approached about 15 years ago, but only as a prototype. > I think that contract bridge, that intrigued me for its 'linguistic formal' part, could profitably match RDF, using Attempto to code the rules... Carlo The Attempto part struck me. I have been leader of the project Attempto in which we have developed the language Attempto Controlled English (ACE) and its tools (attempto.ifi.uzh.ch). ACE has been used in many application fields, but never – as far as I know – for contract bridge. Please tell us more about your project and your experience expressing the bridge rules in ACE. Is ACE expressive enough? If not, what do you miss? Please do not hesitate to contact us or the Attempto mailing list (attempto@lists.ifi.uzh.ch) if you encounter any problems. Best regards. Norbert E. Fuchs Department of Informatics & Institute of Computational Linguistics University of Zurich _______________________________________________ SWI-Prolog mailing list SWI-Prolog@iai.uni-bonn.de <a href="https://mailbox.iai.uni-bonn.de/mailman/listinfo.cgi/swi-prolog" target="_BLANK">https://mailbox.iai.uni-bonn.de/mailman/listinfo.cgi/swi-prolog</a> </blockquote>