{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Human Engineering for Applied Natural Language Processing","authors":[{"name":"Gary G. Hendrix","slug":"gary-g-hendrix","given":"Gary G.","family":"Hendrix","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Hum?n engirE~ring fePturEs for enh~nc f ng the us?bility of pr?cticPl n?turnl lPngu?ge syst~rns ere described. Suc h f€~tur es include spelling corr!'ction, procFss ing of incomplet e (l'lliptic a l) inputs, in terrog Pt ion of the underlying languPgP t:e finition through English queries, c:nct nn ~bilit.y for ca sual us~rs to extend the l~nguP~c PCcepted by the system throL•gh the us e of synonyms 2nd pPraphr?scs. Jill of the fe c: tur e s dE~cribed nre incorporatPd in LI FER, •n e pplicetions-oriented sy~tcm for crc<~ting n aturPl lc:nguPgE' int ('rf?ct:s brtwe e n computer progr;:oms <~ nd casual users. LIFER's methods for r('elizing tloJe more compl!'x humc>n Eonp;ineering ff'>e>tures e re pr E' sentea.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/38","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0038.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/38.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/bibtex/38","volume":{"slug":"1977","title":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1977","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/","year":1977,"location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","dates":"","editors":"Raj Reddy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":38,"pages":{"first":183,"last":190},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}