SUBLANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO COMMAND AND CONTROL "JARGONS"

ORA PROPOSES TO APPLY RECENT ADVANCES TO SUBLANGUAGE RESEARCH TO THE DESCRIPTION OF COMMAND AND CONTROL "JARGONS" FOR DATA BASE QUERY SYSTEMS. AN INITIAL LINGUISTIC STUDY OF SEVERAL JARGONS WILL ALLOW IDENTIFICATION OF THE OF THE MOST TRACTABLE SUBLANGUAGE, ONE OF WHICH WILL BE SINGLED OUT TO PLAN A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM. CONSIDERABLE EFFORT WILL BE EXPENDED ON DESCRIBING THE GRAMMER AND LEXICON OF THE SUBLANGUAGE AND ON RELATING THESE TO THE KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE OF THE ASSOCIATED PROBLEM DOMAIN. THE RESULT OF THE STUDY WILL BE DETAILED BLUEPRINT FOR A HIGHLY EFFICIENT AND ROBUST QUERY SYSTEM FOR THE CHOSEN DOMAIN. THE SYSTEM MUST BE EFFICIENT ENOUGH TO OPERATRE IN TIME AND ROBUST ENOUGH TO OPERATRE IN REAL TIME AND ROBUST ENOUGH TO OPERATE UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF NOISE AND PARTIAL SIGNAL LOSS WHICH MAY REALISTICALLY BE EXPECTED IN COMMAND AND CONTROL SITUATIONS. CONSIDERATIONS WILL BE GIVEN TO THE TRANSPORTABILITY OF OUR PROTOTYPE TO NEW PROBLEM DOMAINS AND TO THE QUESTION OF PROGRAMMING IN ADA WITH ORIENTATION TOWARD MCF COMPUTERS.