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A scientific workflow construction command line

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IUI '09: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 445 - 450

https://doi.org/10.1145/1502650.1502716

Published: 08 February 2009 Publication History

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Workflows have emerged as a common tool for scientists to express their computational analyses. While there are a multitude of visual data flow editors for workflow construction, to date there are none that support the input of workflows using natural language. This work presents the design of a hybrid system that combines natural language input through a command line with a visual editor.

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IUI '09: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

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DOI:10.1145/1502650

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University of British Columbia, Canada
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mineway GmbH, Germany
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Telefonica Research, Spain
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University of Washington, USA

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