The growing efficiency and lower prices of computers make it
possible to apply them more widely in the economy. However, the
wide use of computers in every day life is hindered by a number of
factors which constitute what we shall call the "problem of
contact" or of "talking." The difficulty is that languages used by
computers differ substantially from users' languages and are not
understood by specialists who are unfamiliar with programming. This
is why those specialists who use computers need the help of
programmers to communicate. Since this form of communication has
many more or less obvious shortcomings, great efforts have been
made to find a solution to the problem of contact. Two ap proaches
can be distinguished here: (1) making the computer language similar
to the natural language; (2) making the user's language resemble
that of computers through formalizing the former. This book deals
with the first approach. We shall consider those systems which make
it possible to "talk" with the user in limited natural language
(LNL). The term "natural language" (NL) has been used in the title
of this book instead of LNL. The reason for not using the term
"limited natural language" is that this term has two meanings: (1)
a dialect of a natural language; (2) a formal language whose
operators are expressed by words taken from a natural language (e.
g."
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