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title: "Human Engineering for Applied Natural Language Processing"
authors:
  - "Gary G. Hendrix"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/38"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0038.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1977
pages: "183-190"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# Human Engineering for Applied Natural Language Processing

Gary G. Hendrix

*Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 183-190.

## 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.