<s>
LOLITA	B-Language
is	O
a	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
system	O
developed	O
by	O
Durham	O
University	O
between	O
1986	O
and	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
is	O
an	O
acronym	O
for	O
"	O
Large-scale	O
,	O
Object-based	O
,	O
Linguistic	O
Interactor	O
,	O
Translator	B-Application
and	O
Analyzer	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LOLITA	B-Language
was	O
developed	O
by	O
Roberto	O
Garigliano	O
and	O
colleagues	O
between	O
1986	O
and	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
designed	O
as	O
a	O
general-purpose	O
tool	O
for	O
processing	O
unrestricted	O
text	O
that	O
could	O
be	O
the	O
basis	O
of	O
a	O
wide	O
variety	O
of	O
applications	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
its	O
core	O
was	O
a	O
semantic	B-Application
network	O
containing	O
some	O
90,000	O
interlinked	O
concepts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Text	O
could	O
be	O
parsed	B-Language
and	O
analysed	O
then	O
incorporated	O
into	O
the	O
semantic	B-Application
net	O
,	O
where	O
it	O
could	O
be	O
reasoned	O
about	O
(	O
Long	O
and	O
Garigliano	O
,	O
1993	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Fragments	O
of	O
the	O
semantic	B-Application
net	O
could	O
also	O
be	O
rendered	O
back	O
to	O
English	O
or	O
Spanish	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
applications	B-Application
were	O
built	O
using	O
the	O
system	O
,	O
including	O
financial	O
information	O
analysers	O
and	O
information	O
extraction	O
tools	O
for	O
Darpa	O
’s	O
“	O
Message	B-General_Concept
Understanding	I-General_Concept
Conference	I-General_Concept
Competitions	O
”	O
(	O
MUC-6	B-General_Concept
and	O
MUC-7	B-General_Concept
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LOLITA	B-Language
was	O
one	O
of	O
some	O
systems	O
worldwide	O
to	O
compete	O
in	O
all	O
sections	O
of	O
the	O
tasks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
system	O
description	O
and	O
an	O
analysis	O
of	O
the	O
MUC-6	B-General_Concept
results	O
were	O
written	O
by	O
Callaghan	O
(	O
Callaghan	O
,	O
1998	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LOLITA	B-Language
was	O
an	O
early	O
example	O
of	O
a	O
substantial	O
application	O
written	O
in	O
a	O
functional	B-Language
language	I-Language
:	O
it	O
consisted	O
of	O
around	O
50,000	O
lines	O
of	O
Haskell	B-Language
,	O
with	O
around	O
6000	O
lines	O
of	O
C	B-Language
.	O
It	O
is	O
also	O
a	O
complex	O
and	O
demanding	O
application	O
,	O
in	O
which	O
many	O
aspects	O
of	O
Haskell	B-Language
were	O
invaluable	O
in	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LOLITA	B-Language
was	O
designed	O
to	O
handle	O
unrestricted	O
text	O
,	O
so	O
that	O
ambiguity	O
at	O
various	O
levels	O
was	O
unavoidable	O
and	O
significant	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Laziness	O
was	O
essential	O
in	O
handling	O
the	O
explosion	O
of	O
syntactic	B-Application
ambiguity	O
resulting	O
from	O
a	O
large	O
grammar	O
,	O
and	O
it	O
was	O
much	O
used	O
with	O
semantic	B-Application
ambiguity	O
too	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
system	O
used	O
multiple	O
"	O
domain	B-Language
specific	I-Language
embedded	B-Architecture
languages	O
"	O
for	O
semantic	B-Application
and	O
pragmatic	O
processing	O
and	O
for	O
generation	O
of	O
natural	O
language	O
text	O
from	O
the	O
semantic	B-Application
net	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
,	O
important	O
was	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
work	O
with	O
complex	O
abstractions	O
and	O
to	O
prototype	B-Application
new	O
analysis	O
algorithms	O
quickly	O
.	O
</s>
