Interactive Consulting Via Natural Language

Stuart C. Shapiro; Stanley C. Kwasny

doi:10.1145/360933.360984

Interactive Consulting Via Natural Language

Stuart C. Shapiro
, Stanley C. Kwasny

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Indiana University Bloomington

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Abstract

Interactive programming systems often contain help commands to give the programmer on-line instruction regarding the use of the various systems commands. It is argued that it would be relatively easy to make these help commands significantly more helpful by having them accept requests in natural language. As a demonstration, Weizenbaum's ELIZA program has been provided with a script that turns it into a natural language system consultant.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	459-462
Number of pages	4
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	18
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/360933.360984
State	Published - Aug 1 1975

Keywords

computer assisted instruction
interactive programming
natural language processing
time-sharing systems

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