Office applications will eventually be defined and executed by office personnel rather than profe... more Office applications will eventually be defined and executed by office personnel rather than professional programmers. There are many scientific disciplines and technologies that are contributing to this goal. This panel will explore a few of these areas: databases, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. Today the active database research areas are in highly distributed, real-time transaction oriented systems, and dynamic expressive data organizations such as the relational model. The extending of the database models to cover the requirements of the office is a major concern in office systems research. Artificial Intelligence has been directly involved with the problems of interfacing with end-users for a considerable period of time. The AI knowledge base systems are much closer in spirit to the way humans accumulate and use partial knowledge to solve problems than the database models. Using AI techniques, expert systems have been built for various application areas. One can envis...
Abstract : This paper describes a software system named STARCAT - for STream Analysis of Response... more Abstract : This paper describes a software system named STARCAT - for STream Analysis of Responses by CATegory. The system analyzes sequences of user command strings that have been captured in a special timestamped CMS console file: user response times, URTs, and system response times, SRTs, are associated with each string; strings are assigned - by command name, environment, or experimenter-chosen groupings - into categories; and category statistics are reported for one, two, and three-string subsequences. STARCAT provides a new tool, valuable to various interface and system design studies, for the quantitative analysis of interactive terminal performance. (Author)
One project of the Behavioral Sciences Group, IBM Research, is to analyze natural language progra... more One project of the Behavioral Sciences Group, IBM Research, is to analyze natural language programs to discover the means by which process information is communicated. The object is to determine the extent to which there exist sufficiently reliable and powerful communication mechanisms which might be employed in natural language interfaces between computing systems and users.
Every technical field can be characterized in at least two ways: (1) by the various applications ... more Every technical field can be characterized in at least two ways: (1) by the various applications accomplished in that field and (2) by the underlying technologies implementing these applications. It is equally true that new applications depend new technologies or extension of old ones. The purpose of this paper is to show how this thinking can be productively applied to the field of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING. My hope is that the discussions of language applications, language technologies, and their interrelationships, will make practical systems in this area appear more promising and achievable than they might have been previously.
This is a final report on an Office of Naval Research contract to investigate the behavioral prob... more This is a final report on an Office of Naval Research contract to investigate the behavioral problems and processes of computer programming. Following an overview of the effort given in section (1), the research work is discussed in sections (2)-(7) under six headings, with Motivation ...
Numerous attempts have been made to provide computerized problem solving aids. In most instances ... more Numerous attempts have been made to provide computerized problem solving aids. In most instances such aids are designed without any previous systematic study of the problem solvers who are to use such an aid or any subsequent validation that such aids are really useful. This ...
Page 1. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY June 1980, Vol 93, No. 2, pp. 269-284 0 1980 Board of Trus... more Page 1. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY June 1980, Vol 93, No. 2, pp. 269-284 0 1980 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 0002-9556/80/0600-0269 $01.60/0 Aspects of solution structure in design problem solving ...
One of the most important current software issues is re- liability, and accordingly, a major crit... more One of the most important current software issues is re- liability, and accordingly, a major criterion of program- ming language design must be that the language contribute to the production of reliable programs. Although there are other important aspects of software reliability (eg, ...
Information extraction research at the University of Massachusetts is based on portable, trainabl... more Information extraction research at the University of Massachusetts is based on portable, trainable languag e processing components. Some components are more effective than others, some have been under developmen t longer than others, but in all cases, we are working to ...
Office applications will eventually be defined and executed by office personnel rather than profe... more Office applications will eventually be defined and executed by office personnel rather than professional programmers. There are many scientific disciplines and technologies that are contributing to this goal. This panel will explore a few of these areas: databases, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. Today the active database research areas are in highly distributed, real-time transaction oriented systems, and dynamic expressive data organizations such as the relational model. The extending of the database models to cover the requirements of the office is a major concern in office systems research. Artificial Intelligence has been directly involved with the problems of interfacing with end-users for a considerable period of time. The AI knowledge base systems are much closer in spirit to the way humans accumulate and use partial knowledge to solve problems than the database models. Using AI techniques, expert systems have been built for various application areas. One can envis...
Abstract : This paper describes a software system named STARCAT - for STream Analysis of Response... more Abstract : This paper describes a software system named STARCAT - for STream Analysis of Responses by CATegory. The system analyzes sequences of user command strings that have been captured in a special timestamped CMS console file: user response times, URTs, and system response times, SRTs, are associated with each string; strings are assigned - by command name, environment, or experimenter-chosen groupings - into categories; and category statistics are reported for one, two, and three-string subsequences. STARCAT provides a new tool, valuable to various interface and system design studies, for the quantitative analysis of interactive terminal performance. (Author)
One project of the Behavioral Sciences Group, IBM Research, is to analyze natural language progra... more One project of the Behavioral Sciences Group, IBM Research, is to analyze natural language programs to discover the means by which process information is communicated. The object is to determine the extent to which there exist sufficiently reliable and powerful communication mechanisms which might be employed in natural language interfaces between computing systems and users.
Every technical field can be characterized in at least two ways: (1) by the various applications ... more Every technical field can be characterized in at least two ways: (1) by the various applications accomplished in that field and (2) by the underlying technologies implementing these applications. It is equally true that new applications depend new technologies or extension of old ones. The purpose of this paper is to show how this thinking can be productively applied to the field of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING. My hope is that the discussions of language applications, language technologies, and their interrelationships, will make practical systems in this area appear more promising and achievable than they might have been previously.
This is a final report on an Office of Naval Research contract to investigate the behavioral prob... more This is a final report on an Office of Naval Research contract to investigate the behavioral problems and processes of computer programming. Following an overview of the effort given in section (1), the research work is discussed in sections (2)-(7) under six headings, with Motivation ...
Numerous attempts have been made to provide computerized problem solving aids. In most instances ... more Numerous attempts have been made to provide computerized problem solving aids. In most instances such aids are designed without any previous systematic study of the problem solvers who are to use such an aid or any subsequent validation that such aids are really useful. This ...
Page 1. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY June 1980, Vol 93, No. 2, pp. 269-284 0 1980 Board of Trus... more Page 1. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY June 1980, Vol 93, No. 2, pp. 269-284 0 1980 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 0002-9556/80/0600-0269 $01.60/0 Aspects of solution structure in design problem solving ...
One of the most important current software issues is re- liability, and accordingly, a major crit... more One of the most important current software issues is re- liability, and accordingly, a major criterion of program- ming language design must be that the language contribute to the production of reliable programs. Although there are other important aspects of software reliability (eg, ...
Information extraction research at the University of Massachusetts is based on portable, trainabl... more Information extraction research at the University of Massachusetts is based on portable, trainable languag e processing components. Some components are more effective than others, some have been under developmen t longer than others, but in all cases, we are working to ...
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