Human Engineering for Applied Natural Language Processing

Human eng inee r i ng f e a t u r e s f o r e n h a n c i n g t h e u s a b i l i t y o f p r a c t i c a l n a t u r a l language sys tems a l r e d e s c r i b e d . Such f e a t u r e s i n c l u d e s p e l l i n g c o r r e c t i o n , p r o c e s s i n g o f i n c o m p l e t e ( e l l i p t ic-~I ) i n p u t ? , j n t f r r o g t i o r o f t h p u n d e r l y i n g l anguage d e f i n i t i o n t h r o u g h E n g l i s h o u e r i e s , and ? r r b i l . i t y f o r c a s u a l use rs to ex t rnd the language a c c e p t e d by the sys tem t h r o u g h the use of synonyms ana p e r a p h r a s e s . Al l of 1 h* features d e s c r i b e d are i n c o r p o r a t e d in LJFER, -"n r pp l i e a t i o n s o r j e n l f d sys tem for c r e a t i n g n a t u r a l l anguage j n te r faees between compute r programs and casual USERS LJFER's methods f o r r<"v] i z i r ? the mroe complex human enginer ing f e a t u r e s ? re p r e s e n t e d .