Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming

About 70 participants from 10 countries attended the various talks and discussions in a particularly friendly and cooperative atmosphere. This workshop was sponsored by Simon Fraser University, the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the French Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique. The final proceedings will be published in April 1988 by North Holland. Before briefly introducing the main trends of the workshop, let me precisely define what is meant by natural language understanding and logic programming. In light of some of the talks and discussions, it turns out that this title applies to works where logic programming (in particular, Prolog, although there are a number of other logic-programming languages) is viewed as a convenient implementation framework and a clear (and sometimes simple) formal framework for describing linguistic phenomena.