Embedded Files
UNL is a proposal of a common language shared by people over the world in a multilingual network. This original long-term project was sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University
UNL Features
UNL is a metalanguage devised to describe the informal aspects of sentence meaning in a sense very close to that. The UNL building blocks are:
• a set of Universal Words (UWs), i.e., a "theoretically universal dictionary of conceptual-words", a "UW dictionary", to which every word or expression of a natural language, that is every headword, is to be linked;
• a set of binary Relation Labels (RLs), i.e., a set of theoretically universal semantic and grammatical relations that hold between pairs of sentence components or between UWs;
• a set of Attribute Labels (ALs), i.e., a set of language-specific attributes that specify particular values of grammatical and pragmatic features of individual UWs.
• formulas of the type RL(UW1,UW2)
Team (2001)
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (coordinator)
Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Jr.
Ronaldo Teixeira Martins (computational linguist in charge)
Lucia Helena M. Rino
Jorge Marques Pelizzoni
Finantial Support
IAS/UNU: 1997-1998
CNPq
Page updated
Report abuse