You could start by looking at the publication list at http://trec.nist.gov/.
Not Squeak/Smalltalk related, but have a number of papers available on NLP
and question answering.

Lars Nilsson
Quantum Chamaeleon
http://www.quantumchamaeleon.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bovaird, Brian" <Brian.Bovaird at NOVELLUS.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:21 PM
Subject: Looking for Natural Language understanding apps


> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a Natural Language Understanding App which can read in a
> text file and understand what is in the text file and could respond with
> answers based on questions asked about the text file.
>
> Has any one done something like this in Squeak or any where else?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>