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Reading
There are a number of good books about Prolog, some of which are listed
here. There is no best course: if you want to buy one, look through the
books in the School Library and find the one that suits you best.
There are also some on-line tutorials to which a
link
is given below.
Books about Prolog
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Bratko, I. Programming in Prolog for Artificial Intelligence.
3rd edition. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
A textbook with a fairly concise introduction to Prolog in the
first 180 or so pages. The remainder shows applications to Artificial
Intelligence, improved over previous editions.
Programs used in the text are
available.
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Coelho, H. & Cotta, J. C.
Prolog by example: how to learn, teach, and use it.
Berlin: Springer, 1988.
A wide ranging collection of example programs written in a
variety of styles.
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Clocksin, W.F. & Mellish, C.S.Programming in Prolog.
5th edition. Springer, 2003.
First introductory textbook, suitable as an alternative for those
who wish to use a book as well as the WWW-based teaching material.
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Covington, M.A., Nute, D. & Vellino, A. Prolog programming
in depth. Prentice Hall, 1996.
Good on ISO Standard Prolog with much advanced material and
some interesting applications of Prolog.
Programs used in the text are available from:
ftp://ai.uga.edu/pub/prolog.book
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O'Keefe, R.A. The Craft of Prolog. MIT, 1990.
An advanced book that includes wealth of fascinating material
about computer science in general and Prolog in particular.
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Sterling, L. & Shapiro, E. The Art of Prolog.
2nd edition. MIT, 1994.
A textbook with much introductory material as well as some more
advanced material. Suitable as an alternative to
Clocksin & Mellish for those
who want a more advanced book that supplements the WWW-based
teaching material.
Programs used in the text are
available.
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Books about programming with constraints
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Frühwirth, T. & Abdennader, S. Essentials of constraint
programming. Springer, 2003.
An introduction to the principles behind Constraint Logic Programming,
and discussions of some practical applications. Good introduction to the
theory behind Logic and Constraint Logic Programming.
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Marriott, K. & Stuckey, P.J. Programming with
constraints: an introduction. MIT Press, 1998.
An introduction to the principles behind Constraint Logic Programming,
with practical examples.
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Books about programming for Natural Language Processing
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Gazdar, G. & Mellish, C. Natural language processing in Prolog:
an introduction to computational linguistics. Addison-Wesley, 1989.
Not a general introduction to Prolog, but has many examples of the
practical use of Prolog in NLP and other fields.
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Ross, P. Advanced Prolog: techniques and examples.
Addison-Wesley, 1989.
An advanced book suitable for those who have worked through
Clocksin & Mellish and who
wish to see how Prolog can be used in mainly Artificial Intelligence
applications. Includes a good implementation of a versatile chart
parser.
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Books about Artificial Intelligence
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Russell, S. J. & Norvig, P. Artificial intelligence:
a modern approach. 3rd ed. Pearson, 2010.
Covers a very wide range of AI.
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Online Prolog teaching resources
As Prolog is a very slim language, writing an on-line learning
package is very feasible. There is a
Wikipedia article,
which also lists a number of
online teaching resources.
Perhaps it is best to look through them and pick the one that suits
you best at the moment.
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