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The Universal Networking Language (UNL) project is an international enterprise under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) of the United Nations University in Tokyo. This project seeks to provide the methods and tools for overcoming the language barrier on the Internet. It is a computer language that enables computers to process information and knowledge across the language barriers. It is an artificial language that replicates, in the cyber world, the functions of natural languages in human communication. As a result, it enables people to express all knowledge conveyed by natural languages. It also enables computer to intercommunicate, thus providing people with a linguistic infrastructure for distributing, receiving and understanding multilingual information