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English as a very high level language for simulation programming

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 9, Issue 4

Pages 91 - 100

https://doi.org/10.1145/942572.807050

Published: 28 March 1974 Publication History

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An automatic programming system which produces simulation programs from information obtained through natural language dialogue has been implemented under CP/CMS on the IBM 360/67. In the current version the information obtained from an English conversation about a simple queuing problem is used to build a language independent entity-attribute-value data structure. From this structure both an English description of the problem and a GPSS simulation program for it can be produced. This processing is done by a FORTRAN program which interprets sets of decoding and encoding rules written in a specially developed grammar-rule language. The paper includes a complete sample problem with a discussion of its processing and examples of decoding and encoding rules.

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English as a very high level language for simulation programming
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation support systems
      1. Simulation languages

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 9, Issue 4

April 1974

132 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/942572

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Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages
March 1974
138 pages
ISBN:9781450378840
DOI:10.1145/800233
Chairman:
Burt Leavenworth

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 28 March 1974

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