Protocols of Users Manipulating Visually Presented Information with Natural Language.

Abstract

This document contains a complete set of transcripts for a set of protocols collected at BBN by Candy Sidner, with the help of Rusty Bobrow and Jeff Gibbons, in the spring of 1980. In all, eight protocols were collected, two preliminary ones and six main ones. The two preliminary protocols are based on the task of designing a 1 bit adder and a 4 bit parallel adder as are three of the main protocols, while the other three make use of KL-1 as a database system with graphic representation. The purpose of these protocols, and hence the design of the tasks, was to obtain data about how people talk about graphically presented material which they are trying to manipulate in some way. In particular, we were interested in the kinds of references people made and what sorts of instructions they gave to the machine. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA119762

Entities

People

  • Candace L. Sidner

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artifacts
  • Circuits
  • Databases
  • Diagrams
  • Education
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Logic
  • Logic Gates
  • Military Research
  • Nand Gates
  • National Security
  • Natural Languages
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Military History