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Natural Language Dialogue Service for Appointment Scheduling Agents
Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and
organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially
automate this task. In order to extend the circle of participants as far as
possible we advocate the use of natural language transmitted by e-mail. We
describe COSMA, a fully implemented German language server for existing
appointment scheduling agent systems. COSMA can cope with multiple dialogues in
parallel, and accounts for differences in dialogue behaviour between human and
machine agents. NL coverage of the sublanguage is achieved through both
corpus-based grammar development and the use of message extraction techniques.Comment: 8 or 9 pages, LaTeX; uses aclap.sty, epsf.te
Automated user documentation generation based on the Eclipse application model
An application's user documentation, also referred to as the user manual, is
one of the core elements required in application distribution. While there
exist many tools to aid an application's developer in creating and maintaining
documentation on and for the code itself, there are no tools that complement
code development with user documentation for modern graphical applications.
Approaches like literate programming are not applicable to this scenario, as
not a library, but a full application is to be documented to an end-user.
Documentation generation on applications up to now was only partially feasible
due to the gap between the code and its semantics. The new generation of
Eclipse rich client platform developed applications is based on an application
model, closing a broad semantic gap between code and visible interface. We use
this application model to provide a semantic description for the contained
elements. Combined with the internal relationships of the application model,
these semantic descriptions are aggregated to well-structured user
documentations that comply to the ISO/IEC 26514. This paper delivers a report
on the Ecrit research project, where the potentials and limitations of user
documentation generation based on the Eclipse application model were
investigated.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
A Service based Development Environment on Web 2.0 Platforms
Governments are investing on the IT adoption and promoting the socalled e-economies as a way to improve competitive advantages. One of the main government’s actions is to provide internet access to the most part of the population, people and organisations. Internet provides the required support for connecting organizations, people and geographically distributed developments teams. Software developments are tightly related to the availability of tools and platforms needed for products developments. Internet is becoming the most widely used platform. Software forges such as SourceForge provide an integrated tools environment gathering a set of tools that are suited for each development with a low cost. In this paper we propose an innovating approach based on Web2.0, services and a method engineering approach for software developments. This approach represents one of the possible usages of the internet of the future
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