Universal networking language: A framework for emerging NLP applications

Presently there has been a surge for representing information in a common language for use cases like question-answering system, machine translation, text summarization etc. UNL has been a centre of attraction for researchers in the past two decades and many have tried to harness its power. This paper throws a glimpse into the strides made by such researchers. As UNL provides a language independent platform it eases out the decision making by accessing the valuable and meaningful information, which is otherwise a challenging errand. Thus it captures information and finds its major application in Natural Language Processing (NLP) domain. The paper is written with the intent to introduce its readers to the UNL framework and explain how it is being used to solve some real world problems.