Kluger.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (07/07/83)
Professor Robert Willensky
Computer Science Department
U.C. Berkeley
Talking to UNIX in English: An Overview of an
On-Line UNIX Consultant
UC (UNIX Consultant) is an intelligent natural language interface that
allows naive users to communicate with the UNIX operating system in
ordinary English. The goal of UC is to provide a natural language
help facility that allows new users to learn operating systems'
conventions in a relatively painless way.
UC exploits Artificial Intelligent developments in common sense
reasoning as well as natural language processing in an attempt to
provide an interface that is helpful and intelligent, and not merely a
passive repository of facts. Areas of current research involve
multi-lingual capabilities, analyzing the user's plan structure via
natural dialogue, computing possible solutions to a user's problem,
and generating responses in natural language.
Thursday, July 7, 1983 4:00 pm
Hewlett-Packard
Stanford Park Division
5M conference room
1501 Page Mill Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
*** Be sure to arrive at the building's lobby ON TIME, so that
you may be escorted to the conference room.