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Accession Number:
ADA172673
Title:
Productivity Engineering in the UNIX Environment. UNIX Consultant. A progress Report
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept. 15 Nov 1981-30 Dec 1985
Corporate Author:
CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCES
Report Date:
1985-12-30
Pagination or Media Count:
8.0
Abstract:
We have been engaged in the construction of a system called UC, for UNIX Consultant. UC is designed to be an automated consultant that converses in natural language with naive users to help answer their questions about UNIX operating system. The intent is to provide a system that allows a naive user to ask questions about terminology, about command names and formats, for information concerning plans for doing things in UNIX, and for assistance in debugging problems with UNIX commands. UC should respond by explaining terminology, providing command names and describing their format, filling in the details of a user plan, suggesting plans to achieve goals, or engaging a user in a dialogue by requesting more information. To achieve this goal requires research into basic issues in natural language processing and common sense reasoning. Our research views the user as a planning agent who has goals implicity or explicitly expressed by his or her utterance. It is UCs task to determine the users goal and to aid the user by providing information for the achievement of those goals.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
