Ruby on Rails - an Introduction by Hans Bool
Searching for Ruby on Rails will give you only two responses. When you search at ezines, that is. I found that very curious. So the next time you will search for it you will at least find three. And I will remove this article when this amount will not increase soon (please remind me about this). ... This means that the language simulates not only natural language (if you are not familiar with computer languages you should check this, because it is only relatively true) but also it is able to describe the world more accurate, because of using objects.

Structured Languages by Peter Hale
Busy users will not be interested in a system that is difficult to use, but the system must still give reasonable results. So it is necessary to make it as easy as possible for a user to enter the information the software needs. Structured languages can be the solution to this problem because... Therefore the structured language presents a mathematical representation to the computer and a natural language or diagrammatic representation to the user. ... 2001) explain however, that ambiguity in natural language can make it difficult to translate natural language into SQL.

Natural Language Computing by John Dir
In working with providing computer programs that leverage the use of natural language as a means for program command control, one of the first responses some people have is, “You mean I have to type?” The aversion to typing out thoughts to accomplish tasks seems unreasonably daunting for some at... The degree of organization and more efficient operations achieved by using natural language commands have been measurably more productive than traditional means of computer interaction. ... I have found that using a simple text entry system for natural language control is the best option...

Constructionalist Parsing - Deciphering Natural Language by Sasson Margaliot
The research in the field of Natural Language Processing usually assumes the existence of a syntactic "Generative Engine" that combines words and word-like elements into syntactic structures, and then sometimes displaces them by "syntactic movement". ... The state-of-art algorithms of "pattern matching" generally fail to produce good results on natural language text, before or after parsing. ... But when text undergoes "Constructionalist Parsing", the output is more accessible to standard "pattern matching" methods and analysis, because an appropriate representation of text is generated...

Voice Recognition Technology by Kevin Stith
You probably have heard about voice recognition that allows you to “talk” to a computer, so that it can convert your speech into text. It has been around for more than fifty years now. Developments in voice recognition technology through the years has made it possible for a computer to recognize... Understanding how human speaks would refer to a field of artificial intelligence that is called natural language processing. ... Even when this technology allows a computer to recognize human speech, digitize it into phonemes and words, “analyze” the words based from their context and synthesize...

User Driven Modelling - Detailed Explanation - Part 3 - Criteria Necessary by Peter Hale
Why a different approach is needed Translating concepts into an implementation is difficult. The difficulty of trying to explain the subjects of interest in a call for papers, or proposals illustrates this problem. Because of the ambiguity of words, there is always going to be a problem of... The main approach taken was the use of visual metaphors to enable this creation process, although others may investigate a natural language approach. ... The decision on what combination of diagrammatic or natural language to use in the representation may be influenced by the type of user and the...

User Driven Modelling - Background Information by Peter Hale
Explanation of the Problem to be Addressed Research Aim This research arises out of work to create systems to facilitate management of design and cost related knowledge within those organisations, with the aim of using this knowledge to reduce the costs of manufacturing products. ... The main approach taken was the use of visual metaphors to enable this creation process, although others may investigate a natural language approach. ... If this computer literacy is harnessed to allow the domain experts to develop and share models, the productivity for software development will be...

Enabling User Driven Modelling by Peter Hale
Research Summary The intention of this research is to enable non-programmers to create software from a user interface that allows them to model a particular problem or scenario. This involves people entering information visually in the form of a tree diagram. ... It also has the potential to be computer language and system independent as one representation could be translated into many computer languages or Meta languages (Dmitriev, 2007). ... The basis of the research is the need to provide better ways for people to specify what they require from computer software using techniques that...

How To Simplify Information Organization by John Dir
One of the easiest ways to understand how quickly an organization strategy can become convoluted, confusing, and difficult is to look at the standard method used for organizing information on a personal computer. The idea started out right enough, using a system of files and directories to store... In many cases, concern for defining items within categories can be circumvented as well, allowing users to get immediate access to individual items by calling the item directly with natural language control, and allowing the computer to retrieve the information without any further user interaction.

History of End User Programming by Peter Hale
1960s In the 1960s Dartmouth BASIC programming language [7] was designed and implemented at Dartmouth College by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Over time BASIC became a popular language for home users, and business use, it introduced many people to programming as a hobby or career. ... Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_and_computation - Natural language processing. ... Alice [4], Programming by Example [2][21], programming with automated assistance [20], and Natural Language Programming [27].