Computer Pidgin Language: A new language to talk to your computer?
Stephen J. Hinde, Guillaume Belrose · 2001
speech, telecoms This paper explores a new concept called Computer Pidgin Language (CPL). This is a radical new approach to dealing with the problem of humans talking to computers. The new approach is to teach people a new language that is efficient for dialogues with computers- a sort of artificial spoken language. We see this as being analogous to how people learn scribble on a PDA. We explore in this paper the motivation for CPL from the appliance, e-service, and infrastructure perspective. We explore some early results from a proof of concept demo that we have built to test these ideas. We also explore some of the wider implications of CPL and longer-term research directions.