I have done something like this, bothsoliciting rules from users who are not
Clips/Jess-literate, and paraphrasing rules in English. It was in a rather
specialized context (software design critics) and probably would not be of
any practical use for you, but it is a datapoint showing that it is a
feasible thing to do. In fact, there are many such UIs nowadays, which
provide a problem-domain-specific language (or UI) for specifying conditions
and actions. Assuming the semantics are clear to you, translating them into
Jess should be straightforward.
My only concern would be to make sure that the payoff is sufficient. What
you are really doing is restricting (and thereby simplifying) the language,
so be careful that the restriction and simplification really do help your
intended users. (For example, if the difficulty is the very idea of
formulating rules, as opposed to expressing knowledge in some other form,
then restricting the language won't help much.)
Sidney Bailin
Knowledge Evolution, Inc.
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From: "Graham Heyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Oliver Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: JESS: natural language and Jess?
> Oliver,
> oops, I suppose that I shouldn't have used the term "natural
language". You
> have a very good point. I had just been reading about true "natural
language" AI
> and the turing test etc You are right that parsing natural language is
hard work.
> What I was thinking of was some way of getting rules and facts out of a
text file
> in some format closer to English than the CLIP language used by Jess.
>
> It may be that CLIP itself will be OK but I have the feeling that
people will
> have a little trouble with the syntax. It may well be that we simply write
some
> program which talks to the user on one end to gather requirrements and
outputs
> rules and facts at the other. What I was asking was if someone had already
done
> something similar in the hope of saving some effort ;^)
>
>
> Oliver Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > At 13:47 07.05.01 -0400, Graham Heyes wrote:
> > >Hello Folks
> > > I dropped off the jess list for a while so I'm sorry if this topic
> > >has been beaten to death already. I couldn't find much in the archives
> > >though.
> > > I would like to use Jess in a real-time control system to monitor
> > >parameters from physical devices like power supplies, pumps, magnets
> > >etc. I have writen a few clip files as part of a pilot project to test
> > >the fesability. I was showing the clip to someone and their comment was
> > >"I hope you don't expect our users to learn this!". It's a valid point.
> > >I think I understand clip/Jess but the language itself is rather
> > >cryptic. Is there any "natural language" method out there which would
> > >allow us to write rules and facts in a way which a non-expert can
> > >understand. I could probably get someone in my group to work on it but,
> > >obviously, would rather start with something which already exists.
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Graham
> >
> > Graham,
> >
> > You can do this if you solve a little problem first: Find a way to
> > automatically defer meaning from non-standardized human language. But
since
> > researchers from all over the globe have unsuccessfully tried to solve
this
> > little problem for the last 3 millenia, hopes are dim that you will be
able
> > to come up with a quick fix.
> >
> > ;) Oliver
> >
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