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Bracmat is an interpreted programming language that is developed by Bart Jongejan, starting in 1986. Originally it was designed as a Computer Algebra system, but it has shown its merits in natural language processing as well. Bracmat has been used in the field of General Relativity for the algebraic computation of Ricci tensors from given space-time metrics, for the implementation of a dialogue-manager in virtual world project that allowed a user to communicate with software agents in plain English and with gestures, for the analysis of texts in a "Controlled Language"-project and for automatic error correction of hundreds of html-pages. Bracmat has also shown its utility in some real-world applications: for example to identify persons, companies etc. in pre-tagged texts that must be anonymised. The to date most advanced application of Bracmat is as workflow planner and executor. Instead of letting the user choose between software tools, which the user may not know very well, the planner asks the user to specify what kind of output she wants. With this information the planner computes all (not necessarily sequential) combinations of tools and their parameter settings that combine into workflows that are guaranteed to produce the specified output from the given input. The computed list is condensed into a short format that highlights the differences between the workflows for the user and leaves out all that is of less importance.
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