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The UNL is an ambitious initiative launched in 1996 as a Programme of the Institute of Advanced Studies of United Nations University (UNU/IAS) and is inherited by the UNDL Foundation in 2001.

UNL
  •  its goal
The UNL is a computer language that enables computers to process information and knowledge. It is an artificial language that replicates the functions of natural languages. Using the UNL, people can express all kinds of information and knowledge that conveyed by natural languages and computers can intercommunicate using such information and knowledge. The UNL not only makes it possible to provide people with a Language Infrastructure (LI) for distributing, receiving and understanding multilingual information, but also makes it possible to provide computers with enough knowledge in the form accessible and understandable. This Knowledge Infrastructure (KI) enables computers to make intelligent processing including reasoning.
  • its developments
To make information and knowledge UNLized is a movement. The purpose of the UNL movement is to provide an infrastructure of knowledge for people to have equal opportunities to use without any language barrier and for computers to do intelligent processing using the knowldege. Developments in the UNL movement includes UNLization of knowledge in order to make them available for all, deconversion of the UNLized knowledge into various natural languages in order to make the knowledge understandable for all, and UNL-related tools and applications for people to be able to access or obtain the knowledge in UNL.
There are two ways to join this movement: to enter the UNL Society or to work as a member of the UNL Center. The UNL Society is a group of people or organizations who are interested in R&D of UNL-related applications. Members of the UNL Society have access to the UNL resources that provided by the UNL Center and are able to receive technical consultations from the UNL Center. Members of the UNL Center will enhance the UNL itself for adoption in various fields of information and knowledge and extend the coverage of languages linked with the UNL.

  
  • UNL book, Edition II was published in June 2005. For details see here.
  • UNL 2005 - Edition 2006 specifications is released at here, 30 August 2006
  • DeCo Version 2006 is available at here
  • UNL Documents are available at here
  • UNL 2005 Specifications are available at here, posted at 7 June 2005