Prolog

name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Uncommon spelling of prologue. US, alt-of, uncommon
  2. 2
    a computer language designed in Europe to support natural language processing wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Uncommon spelling of prologue. US, alt-of, uncommon
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.

    "Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to start learning about one of the most useful of these: definite clause grammars, or DCGs as they are usually called."

Synonyms

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ai programming languagedeclarative programming languageforewordintroductionlogic programinglogic programming

Example

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"One of my Esperantist friends was from Modena in Italy. Davide was his name, and his job entailed Artificial Intelligence using the Prolog programming language."

Etymology

From French Prolog, abbreviation of Programmation en Logique.

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