Programming With Natural Language
One issue that we have faced is a lack of linguistic corpora in the area. We’ve scoured a couple of decades of our own tech support logs, as well as many programming forums, to try to find natural language descriptions matched with precise programs.
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By the way, in Mathematica 8 we’re beginning to have code generation capabilities for low-level languages like C. So it’s going to be technically possible to go all the way from natural language input down to something like C.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by “programming,” but this is impressive nonetheless.
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November 21, 2010 6:31 PM
"I suppose it depends on what you mean by “programming,” but this is impressive nonetheless."
Folks don't use (and think about) the word "scripting" enough, in my humble opinion.
