Paper Info
Title
Natural Language Processing: A Human-Computer Interaction Perspective
Abstract
Natural language processing has been in existence for more than fifty years. During this time, it has significantly contributed to the field of human-computer interaction in terms of theoretical results and practical applications. As computers continue to become more affordable and accessible, the importance of user inter-faces that are effective, robust, unobtrusive, and user-friendly–regardless of user expertise or impediments–becomes more pronounced. Since natural language usually provides for effortless and effective communication in human-human interaction, its significance and potential in human-computer interaction should not be overlooked–either spoken or typewritten, it may effectively complement other available modalities, 1 1 A modality is defined as a communication channel used to convey or acquire information. (Coutaz and Caelen, 1991). such as windows, icons, menus, and pointing; in some cases, such as users with disabilities, natural language may even be the only applicable modality. This chapter examines the field of natural language processing as it relates to human-computer interaction by focusing on its history, interactive application areas, theoretical approaches to linguistic modeling, and relevant computational and philosophical issues. It also presents a taxonomy for interactive natural language systems based on their linguistic knowledge and pro- cessing requirements, and reviews related applications. Finally, it discusses linguistic coverage issues, and explores the development of natural language widgets and their integration into multimodal user interfaces.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60665-8
Advances In Computers
Keywords
Field
DocType
natural language processing,user interface,human interaction,human computer interaction,natural language,speech recognition
Deep linguistic processing,Computer science,Natural language user interface,Natural language programming,Natural language,Human–computer interaction,Natural language processing,Universal Networking Language,Artificial intelligence,Natural mapping,Language technology,Interactive systems engineering
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
47
Advances In Computers
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.91
89
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bill Manaris120421.81