What does "Attempto" stand for?
No, it is not an acronym.
No, it is not a misspelling of "[an] attempt to ..." as somebody
suggested.
Actually, Attempto ("I dare" in Latin) was the motto of Graf Eberhard
im Barte ("Duke Eberhard the Bearded") who in 1477 founded the
University of Tubingen, Germany. More than five-hundred years later,
Attempto was the motto of Norbert E. Fuchs — a graduate of the
University of Tubingen — when he started the Attempto project at the
University of Zurich in 1995 — defying "has been tried, can't be done"
statements of computerlinguistics big shots.
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