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Toward a Programmatic Semantics of Natural Language (2004)
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| Author | Liu, Hugo Lieberman, Henry |
| Description | Proceedings of VL/HCC'04: the 20th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing. September 26-29, 2004 Natural language is imbued with a rich semantics but unfortunately its complex elegance is often mistaken for mere imprecision. Because complete parsers of English are not yet achievable, people assume that it is not feasible to use English directly as a means of instructing computers. However, in this paper, we show that English descriptions of procedures often contain programmatic semantics – linguistic features that can be easily mapped into programming language constructs. Some linguistic features can even inspire new ways of thinking about specifying programs. Far from being hopelessly ambiguous, natural languages exhibit important principles of communication that could be used to |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society Press |
| Publisher Date | 2004-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | English Description Rich Semantics Linguistic Feature Important Principle New Way Complex Elegance Mere Imprecision Programmatic Semantics Linguistic Feature Complete Parser Programmatic Semantics Language Construct Natural Language |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
