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Natural Language User Interface For Software Engineering Tasks

Wachtel, Alexander; Klamroth, Jonas; Tichy, Walter F. ORCID iD icon

Abstract:

In this paper, we present the idea to use natural language as the user interface for programming tasks. Programming languages assist with repetitive tasks that involve the use of conditionals, loops and statements. This is what is often challenging users. However, users can easily describe tasks in their natural language. We aim to develop a Natural Language User Interface that enables users to describe algorithms, including statements, loops, and conditionals. For this, we extend our current spreadsheet system to support control flows. An evaluation shows that users solved more than 60% of tasks. Although far from perfect, this research might lead to fundamental changes
in computer use. With natural language, programming would become available to everyone. We believe that it is a reasonable approach for end user software engineering and will therefore
overcome the present bottleneck of IT proficients.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000069326
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation (IPD)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsjahr 2017
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISBN: 978-1-61208-538-8
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-693264
KITopen-ID: 1000069326
Erschienen in ACHI 2017 : The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Nice, France, 19 - 23 March 2017
Verlag International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA)
Seiten 34-39
Schlagwörter Natural Language Processing, End User Development, Natural Language Interfaces, Human Computer Interaction, Programming In Natural Language, Dialog Systems
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