Programming in natural language: “NLC” as a prototype

  • Authors:
  • Bruce W. Ballard;Alan W. Biermann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM '79 Proceedings of the 1979 annual conference
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

The state of the art in computational linguistics has progressed to the point where it is now possible to process simple programs written in natural language. This report describes a natural language programming system called NLC which enables a computer user to type English commands into a display terminal and watch them executed on example data shown on the screen. The system is designed to process data stored in matrices or tables, and any problem which can be represented in such structures can be handled if the total storage requirements are not excessive.