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Elephant 2000: A Programming Language For Remembering The Past And Building On It, Kerry J. Holmes
Elephant 2000: A Programming Language For Remembering The Past And Building On It, Kerry J. Holmes
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Elephant 2000 is a programming language to specify programs that accept user speech as text inputs and outputs speech text. The inputs and outputs are based on Dialogue Act theory which describes several forms of speech outputs, such as requests, questions, and answers. The language also relies on Named Entity Recognition to determine what types of objects a user references. These entities include persons, locations, times and so on. Using these attributes of user speech, a program is able to perform simple rule matching and pattern recognition to respond to input. The result is a programming language with English like …