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%cbcl[e88,jmc]		Prose for cbcl proposal

	We propose to study languages for communication of business
transaction information between programs in computers belonging to
separate organizations.  We also propose to develop certain new
language features that correct deficiencies of the languages presently
used for electronic data interchange (EDI).  The improvement will be
in the direction of increasing the variety of messages that may be
transmitted without requiring revisions of the language.  This will be
accomplished by taking into account recent developments in artificial
intelligence, especially work in formalizing nonmonotonic reasoning.

	Some of our proposals for improvement are described in
(McCarthy 1983), but they will be reconsidered and extended
in the light of the EDI systems that have been developed and
more recent AI and natural language research.