An Experimental Study on Computer Programming with Linguistic Expressions

This paper describes the end-users programming system that generates computer programs through interaction using linguistic expressions with users who have little knowledge of computer programming. The present system employs the idea of computer programming by paraphrasing, which is used as the useful method of human's everyday communication. The system also uses the case-based reasoning method for paraphrasing. Therefore users can add the meanings of linguistic expressions that the system does not have. Two subject experiments are carried out in order to confirm the usefulness of the present system. The one task is simple text editing and the other task is more complex one. Ten subjects in all perform the experiments and the experimental results are discussed in this paper.