“…Namely, I began my work as a research assistant in 1984 in a large project that was developing a natural language database interface for Finnish. Methodologically the project (Kielikone, "Language Machine", funded by Sitra foundation) was following the traditional artificial intelligence approach that was popular in 1980s (Jäppinen and Ylilammi, 1986;Jäppinen et al, 1988).…”