Domain-Independent Automatic Programming

Abstract

An automatic programming system is distinguished from a conventional programming system by its use of an explicit semantic model of the application domain to structure the dialogue between the system and the user, to understand the user's responses, and to translate these into actions. The major differences between the design effort reported here (and the project's main focuses) and other automatic programming projects are: first, its independence of any particular domain and its dialogue-driven acquisition of the domain to produce a Loose Model; second, the informal and typically ill-structured manner in which both this Loose Model and the task to be programmed are specified and their translation into a directly interpretable Precise Model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0777956

Entities

People

  • Martin J. Kay
  • Norton R. Greenfield
  • Robert M. Balzer
  • Walter R. Ryder
  • William C. Mann

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Automatic Programming
  • California
  • Classification
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Databases
  • Information Science
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Natural Languages
  • Programming Languages
  • Semantic Models
  • Translations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Computational Linguistics