The communication betwen people that use a computer using natural language is a good idea. Despite, it’s very difficult t program a computer to chat across different domains, it’s much easier to program one to can understand comands in a restrictive environmnet. Before all this were known, it was marketed a spreadsheet program that allowed people to communicate with the program using a natural language interface.
Altought the intuitive appeal of a natural language interface, some researches had said that some languages have a lot of ambiguities for be used to communicating with computers, but there is an experimental data suporting the efficacy of a natural language interface, and some studies that have compared natural language interfaces with other styles of interface.
This study compare the facility of learning a tradicional command/menu interface to a spreadsheet whit the simplicity of learning the natural language interface of Lotus HAL.
References:
- Natural language interfaces. (March, 3, 2008)In Rice Virtual Lab. Retrieved: (June, 21, 2009).From http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/case_studies/interface/index.html
- Natural language. (2009, June 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:54, June 9, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natural_language&oldid=295457792
