Robert Wilensky and David N. Chin and Marc Luria and James H. Martin and James Mayfield and Dekai Wu

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-89-520

, 1989

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1989/CSD-89-520.pdf

UC (UNIX Consultant) is an intelligent, natural-language interface that allows naive users to learn about the UNIX operating system. UC was undertaken because the task was thought to be both a fertile domain for Artificial Intelligence research and a useful application of AI work in planning, reasoning, natural language processing, and knowledge representation. <p>The current implementation of UC comprises the following components: A language analyzer, called ALANA, that produces a representation of the content contained in an utterance; an inference component called a concretion mechanism that further refines this content; a goal analyzer, PAGAN, that hypothesizes the plans and goals under which the user is operating; an agent, called UCEgo, that decides on UC's goals and proposes plans for them; a domain planner, called KIP, that computes a plan to address the user 's request; an expression mechanism, UCExpress, that determines the content to be communicated to the user, and a language production mechanism, UCGen, that expresses UC's response in English. <p>UC also contains a component called KNOME that builds a model of the user's knowledge state with respect to UNIX. Another mechanism, UCTeacher, allows a user to add knowledge of both English vocabulary and facts about UNIX to UC's knowledge base. This is done by interacting with the user in natural language. <p>All these aspects of UC make use of knowledge represented in a knowledge representation system called KODIAK. KODIAK is a relation-oriented system that is intended to have wide representational range and a clear semantics, while maintaining a cognitive appeal. All of UC's knowledge, ranging from its most general concepts to the content of a particular utterance, is represented in KODIAK.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Wilensky:CSD-89-520,
    Author= {Wilensky, Robert and Chin, David N. and Luria, Marc and Martin, James H. and Mayfield, James and Wu, Dekai},
    Title= {The Berkeley UNIX Consultant Project},
    Year= {1989},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1989/5896.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-89-520},
    Abstract= {UC (UNIX Consultant) is an intelligent, natural-language interface that allows naive users to learn about the UNIX operating system. UC was undertaken because the task was thought to be both a fertile domain for Artificial Intelligence research and a useful application of AI work in planning, reasoning, natural language processing, and knowledge representation. <p>The current implementation of UC comprises the following components: A language analyzer, called ALANA, that produces a representation of the content contained in an utterance; an inference component called a concretion mechanism that further refines this content; a goal analyzer, PAGAN, that hypothesizes the plans and goals under which the user is operating; an agent, called UCEgo, that decides on UC's goals and proposes plans for them; a domain planner, called KIP, that computes a plan to address the user 's request; an expression mechanism, UCExpress, that determines the content to be communicated to the user, and a language production mechanism, UCGen, that expresses UC's response in English. <p>UC also contains a component called KNOME that builds a model of the user's knowledge state with respect to UNIX. Another mechanism, UCTeacher, allows a user to add knowledge of both English vocabulary and facts about UNIX to UC's knowledge base. This is done by interacting with the user in natural language. <p>All these aspects of UC make use of knowledge represented in a knowledge representation system called KODIAK. KODIAK is a relation-oriented system that is intended to have wide representational range and a clear semantics, while maintaining a cognitive appeal. All of UC's knowledge, ranging from its most general concepts to the content of a particular utterance, is represented in KODIAK.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Report
%A Wilensky, Robert 
%A Chin, David N. 
%A Luria, Marc 
%A Martin, James H. 
%A Mayfield, James 
%A Wu, Dekai 
%T The Berkeley UNIX Consultant Project
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1989
%@ UCB/CSD-89-520
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1989/5896.html
%F Wilensky:CSD-89-520