Welcome to IAN!

 IAN is the acronym for Interactive ANalyser. Differently from the UNLeditor, it includes a grammar for natural language analysis and operates semi-automatically. The word sense disambiguation is still carried out by the language specialist, but the system can filter the candidates using an optional set of disambiguation rules. The syntactic processing is done automatically through the natural language analysis grammar, but syntactic ambiguities are signalled to the user, who may backtrack and choose different syntactic paths. In any case, human interaction is always optional, and is used to improve the results. In case of no human intervention, the system simply outputs the most likely alternative, which is the one corresponding to the highest priority in the lexicon and in the grammar.