Towards a natural language interface for CAD

Authors:
Tariq Samad;Stephen W. Director
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University
Venue:
DAC '85 Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Year:
1985

Citing 4
Cited 3

Natural artificial languages: low level processes

International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
The natural language of interactive systems

Communications of the ACM
An English language question answering system for a large relational database

Communications of the ACM
Software psychology: Human factors in computer and information systems (Winthrop computer systems series)

Software psychology: Human factors in computer and information systems (Winthrop computer systems series)

PHRAN-SPAN: a natural language interface for system specifications

DAC '87 Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Understanding system specifications written in natural language

IJCAI'87 Proceedings of the 10th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
PixelTone: a multimodal interface for image editing

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We propose a natural language interface as part of the solution to the problems posed by the continuing increase in the number and sophistication of CAD tools. The advantages of a natural language interface for CAD are numerous, but the complexity of the CAD domain renders most previous work in natural language interfaces of limited utility. We describe a new approach to natural language understanding which we are implementing in an interface currently under development. This approach is based on flexibility, parallelism, and redundancy. The present status of the interface (named Cleopatra) is described, and some imperative improvements are discussed.