Universal Networking Language: A Tool for Language Independent Semantics?
Amitabha Mukerjee, Achla M. Raina, Kumar Kapil, Pankaj Goyal, Pushpraj Shukla · 2005
Abstract- Given source text in several languages, can one answer queries in some other language, without translating any of the sources into the language of the questioner? While this task seems extremely difficult at first sight, it is possible that the ongoing UN sponsored Universal Networking Language (UNL) proposal may hold some clues towards achieving this distant dream. In this paper we present a partially implemented solution which shows how UNL, though not designed with this as the primary objective, can be used as the predicate knowledge base on which inferences can be performed. Semantic processing is demonstrated by Question Answering. In our system as of now, both the text corpus and the questions are in English, but if UNL can deliver on its promise of a single homogeneous language-independent encoding, then it