This work presents in some depth a comprehensive Natural Language

Understanding (NLU) system devised by the author that can account for

the linguistic principles of Tamil in computational phonology, morphology,

syntax and semantics and also define suitable computational algorithms

from a linguistic perspective.

The author has brought to bear an inter-disciplinary focus to natural

language processing and the understanding of natural languages by

computers. The latest computational theories and linguistic principles

have been employed in this work in a very systematic and

comprehensive manner to illustrate how language can be engineered

and automated in novel ways using computers.