Natural Language Inputs to a Simulation Programming System - An Introduction.

Abstract

A simulation programming system with which models for simple queueing problems can be built through natural-language interaction with a computer is described. In this system the English statement of a problem is first translated into a language-independent entity-attribute-value information structure, which can then be translated back into an equivalent English description and into a GPSS simulation program for the problem. This processing is done on an IBM 360/67 by a FORTRAN program which is guided by a set of stratified decoding and encoding rules written in a grammar-rule language developed for this system. A detailed example of the use of the system is included. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0739361

Entities

People

  • George E. Heidorn

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coding
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Decoding
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Message Decoding
  • Message Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Notation
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.