Natural Language Expression of User Policies in Pervasive Computing Environments
Julie Weeds, Bill Keller, David James Weir, Ian Wakeman, Jon Rimmer, Tim Owen · 2004
The pervasive computing environments of tomorrow will typically consist of a large heterogeneous collection of networked services. In an ongoing research project, we are exploring ways to enable non-technical users to configure their environment. Our architecture includes an ontology that precisely describes the available services, a formal language for defining user policies and a middleware implementation of formal policies. In this paper, we analyse how existing natural language technologies can be applied to bridge the gap from a natural language description of user policies to a formal representation.