Nelson - Natural Language, Semantic Analysis and Interactive Fiction.pdf by Graham Nelson
Interesting paper that shows how "natural" English can be extremely powerful for programming:
if a woman (called the inhabitant) is in a room (called the place), say “[The inhabitant] is in [the place].”What also impressed me was that English syntax are "easily" translated into a rule based language like Prolog or Datalog:
“somebody is in an adjacent room”
i.e., Exists x : person(x) and Exists y : room(y) and adjacent(y) and in(x, y)
i.e., Exists x : person(x) and room(parent(x)) and adjacent(parent(x))Inform dates back to 1992. It makes me wonder if the current logic programming tools (Clojure core.logic) are any better and if so, what will I be able to do?