A Command Language Processor for Flexible Interface Design
- 1 September 1974
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- Published by Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Abstract
A functional specification for a computer-based, interactive Command Language Processor (CLP) is presented. The CLP is the language processing component of a user-oriented interface (called the Agent) to a sophisticated, text preparation and message processing service. The CLP differs from most language processors in that it operates with a dialogue grammar and takes the entire interaction between user and Agent as its source parse string. The parse is ongoing and proceeds along with the interaction. Within this framework, the CLP provides: pronominal referencing, situation dependent prompts and, on request, a contextual review of the entire interaction. As the user and Agent interact, the CLP develops a lexicon of the user's name space. Using that lexicon, the CLP recognizes abbreviated and incompletely spelled words. A facility is provided to define macro commands presented in example form by the user.Keywords
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