SUGIYAMA@SRI-AI.ARPA (08/18/84)
From: Kenji Sugiyama <SUGIYAMA@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Here are two abstracts of the papers that concern with a Natural Language
Programming System under development in Fujitsu Laboratories in Japan.
* "Understanding of Japanese in an Interactive Programming System"
by Kenji Sugiyama, Masayuki Kameda, Kouji Akiyama & Akifumi Makinouchi
in COLING84 (10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics).
Abstract: KIPS is an automatic programming system which generates
standrdized business application programs through interactive natural
language dialogue. KIPS models the program under discussion and the
content of the user's statements as organizations of dynamic objects
in the object-oriented programming sense. This paper describes the
statement-model and the program-model, their use in understanding Japanese
program specifications, and how they are shaped by the linguistic
singularities of Japanese input sentences.
* "An Experimental Interactive Natural Language Programming System"
by Kenji Sugiyama, Kouji Akiyama, Masayuki Kameda & Akifumi Makinouchi
to appear in Electronics and Communications in Japan which is published
by Scripta Technical, Inc. (Silver Spring, MD 20910) in cooperation
with IECEJ (the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers
of Japan, Tokyo 105).
Abstract: This paper discusses the problems encountered in the
development of the interactive natural language programming system (KIPS)
from three aspects, which are input sentence, target program and communication
between the user and the system. Based on the recognitin of the problems,
an interactive natural language programming system is proposed, which is
constructed on a model of the task domain consisting of active objects
in the object-oriented programming sense. The proposedd system is composed
of four modules, which are parser, specification acquisitor, coder and
user interface. Those modules realize the functions of information
extraction from Japanese sentence, assimilation of fragmentary informations,
automatic programming and man-machine interface, respectively. Lastly,
future development of the system is discussed.
Contact point is as follows:
Kenji Sugiyama
(until Sept. 5 and thereabout)
SRI International, BS253
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415)852-4402
Sugiyama@SRI-AI
(afterwards)
Software Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
Kawasaki-shi, 211 Japan
(044)777-1111