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This article gives a short introduction to get started with logic programming in Prolog that do not require any previous programming experience. The presentation is aimed at students of linguistics, but it does not go deeper into linguistics than any student who has some ideas of what a computer is, can follow the text. Our approach differs from the traditional ones by including constraint-based techniques which makes it possible, in a surprisingly straightforward way, to characterize and analyze pragmatic-semantic phenomena by so-called abductive reasoning.
It is written after a talk given for students at GRLMC, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Cataluña (Spain), in 2009. It is strongly inspired by an invited tutorial given at Linguistics and Formal Linguages, Second International Workshop on Non-Classical Formal Languages in Linguistics, ForLing 2008, also taking place at GRLMC. The author expresses his thanks to the students and good colleagues in Tarragona and elsewhere who have influenced this material.
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