Elemental Cognition LLC

Bridgewater Associates Ec Ip, LLC

Clifton James McFate

David Angelo Ferrucci

Aditya Anand Kalyanpur

Marcello Balduccini

David Melville

Andrea Bradshaw

Joseph Nelson Rushton

David Nachman

David A Ferrucci

Gregory Burnham

Andrew E Beck

Gregory Gelfond

A natural language programming system may configure a machine learning (ML) model to translate natural language descriptions into constrained language statements. The constrained language statements may express the natural language descriptions using a constrained subset of natural language. The constrained subset of natural language includes words with unambiguous semantics and with meaning that has a clear and singular interpretation. The constrained language statements with unambiguous semantics enable construction of valid statements in high-level 'English-like' executable programming language. With the present system, a user does not need to learn a new programming language but rather learn to constrain their natural language statements to a subset of the natural language (“constrained language”) and to generate executable programs.

Machine-learning assisted natural language programming system

A natural language interfacing system may use a knowledge acquisition tool to obtain structured representations from user input text. The system may initiate interaction with a request for input and a partial statement with blank text slots labeled by field types. The system may receive input text to fill in a slot of the partial statement and perform semantic parsing on the input text to identify a trigger concept. The system may generate a list of templates defining different semantic frames for the trigger concept. A generated template may include additional generated slots and/or suggested slot-fillers to guide user input. In response to a template selection, the partial statement includes the trigger concept annotated with a semantic frame. This process is repeated by iteratively updating the list of templates until the statement is completed. The statement is mapped to a structured representation including semantic frames.

Knowledge acquisition tool

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Clifton James McFate