Natural Language Processing holds great promise for making computer interfaces that are easier to use for people, since people will (hopefully) be able to talk to the computer in their own language, rather than learn a specialized language of computer commands. For programming, however, the necessity of a formal programming language for communicating with a computer has always been taken for gr...

We argue it is better to program in a natural language such as English, instead of a programming language like Java. A natural language interface for programming should result in greater readability, as well as making possible a more intuitive way of writing code. In contrast to previous controlled language systems, we allow unrestricted syntax, using wide-coverage syntactic and semantic method...

The project described by the present paper aims at building a bridge between Intelligent Query Interfaces and Natural Language Generation technologies. The idea is to have a query interface enabling the users to access heterogeneous data sources by means of an integrated ontology. This paper shows how we are redesigning our intelligent query interface by rendering the logic-based queries in nat...

Programming requires years of training. With natural language and end user development methods, programming could become available to everyone. It enables end users to program their own devices and extend the functionality of the existing system without any knowledge of programming languages. In this paper, we describe an Interactive Spreadsheet Processing Module (ISPM), a natural language inte...

Text prediction was initially proposed to help people with a low text composition speed to enhance their message composition. After the important advancements obtained in the last years, text prediction methods may nowadays benefit anyone trying to input text messages or commands, if they are adequately integrated within the user interface of the application. Diverse text prediction methods are...

This paper describes a natural language interface developed for an expert system, Page-7~ The interface accepts English descriptions of observed symptoms and maps those descriptions to hypotheses used as initial input to the Page-X diagnosis system. The interface describes an applicationindependent linguistic interface and an application-specific hypothesis identification component.