REWMOL : Transfer of the Interpreter to VAX/VMS, and Some Augmentation of Its Facilities for Natural Language Processing

REWMOL is a REal World MOdeling Language with two operation modes. The first is the basic mode, where the conventional LISP equivalent facility is available, and the second the process mode, where a pseudo parallel processing mechanism is available. The interpreter of REWMOL was first developed on ACOS-6 (an OS of a mainframe, ACOS-800/850), which was later shifted to UNIPLUS (an OS of a workstation, U-station). Recently, we transferred the interpreter to VAX/VMS, and augmented some of its facilities by adding a number of basic REWMOL functions for natural language processing. Then, in order to check the validity of the transfer of the series, we not only transferred some application programs, originally written in UCI-LISP and dealing with conceptual data, but also wrote some object-oriented programs on the VAX system. This paper reports on the outline of the transfer of the interpreter and the application programs, and also on the necessity, the functional taxonomy, and the specifications concerning the related augmentation of the functions.