Hermeto: A NL-UNL Enconverting Environment
Ronaldo Teixeira Martins, Ricardo Hasegawa, Maria das Graças, V. Nunes · 2005
Abstract ⎯ This paper aims at presenting and describing HERMETO, a computational environment for fullyautomatic, both syntactic and semantic, natural language analysis. HERMETO converts a list structure into a network structure, and can be used to enconvert from any natural language into the Universal Networking Language (UNL). As a language-independent platform, HERMETO should be parameterized for each language, in a way very close to the one required by the UNL Center’s EnConverter. However, HERMETO brings together three special distinctive features: 1) it takes rather high-level syntactic and semantic grammars; 2) its dictionaries support attribute-value pair assignments; and 3) its user-friendly interface comprises debug, compiling and editing facilities. In this sense, HERMETO is said to provide a better environment for the automatic production of UNL expressions.