Natural language is one of many ‘interface styles’ (or ‘interaction modalities’) that can be used in the dialog between a human user and a computer. There is a significant appeal in being able to address a machine and direct it’s operations by using the same language we use in everyday human to human interaction.
Some Natural Language interfaces are:
- Machine translation: to make translations of natural-language texts in a computerized and automatic way.
- Automatic Sumarization: a computer program creates a shorter version of a text.
- Information Extraction: it points out a important information from a text.
References:
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- Natural Language as an Interface Style(May 1994). In University of Toronto. Retrieved 12:00, June 16, 2009 from http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/byron/papers/nli.html
