Automated derivation of program control structure from natural language program descriptions
David S. Wile, Robert M. Balzer, Neil M. Goldman · 1977
This paper describes a system which organizes a natural language description of a program into a conventional program control structure, as a part of a larger system for converting informal natural language program specifications into running programs. Analysis of the input program fragments using a model of a human “reader” of specifications has been found to be a very successful adjunct to conventional “planning” methodologies.