LOLITA is a natural language processing system developed by Durham University between 1986 and 2000.
It was designed as a general-purpose tool for processing unrestricted text that could be the basis of a wide variety of applications.
Text could be parsed and analysed then incorporated into the semantic net, where it could be reasoned about (Long and Garigliano, 1993).
LOLITA was designed to handle unrestricted text, so that ambiguity at various levels was unavoidable and significant.
Also, important was the ability to work with complex abstractions and to prototype new analysis algorithms quickly.