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English as a very high level language for simulation programming

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George E. HeidornAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages

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https://doi.org/10.1145/800233.807050

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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Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages

March 1974

138 pages

ISBN:9781450378840

DOI:10.1145/800233

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 9, Issue 4
April 1974
132 pages
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DOI:10.1145/942572
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