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Using Natural Language in a CAI System: the Knowledge Base

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Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems

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A CAI system to teach notions of programming using a Portuguese version of the Basic Language (PBASICO) was implemented in a Brazilian minicomputer, the G-10. The communication between the CAI system and the user was restricted to a set of simple commands that permits only a fixed way of following the PBASICO course. This work describes an extension of the first CAI system designed. The extension aims to allow a more natural way for communicating with the system, i.e. by means of a subset of the Portuguese language.

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  1. Laboratório de Projetos em ComputaÇão, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, do Rio de Janeiro—PUC/FJ, Brazil

    M. R. Millan

  2. Departamento de Matemática e Estatistica, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil

    P. L. Da R. Filho (Assistant Professor)

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  1. W.O.G.S.C., Blackburn, UK

    J. Rose (Director-General) (Director-General)

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Millan, M.R., Filho, P.L.D.R. (1978). Using Natural Language in a CAI System: the Knowledge Base. In: Rose, J. (eds) Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93104-8_29

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