Reference Information
Title: A Conversational Interface to Web Automation
Author: Tessa Lau
Publisher: UIST' 10, October 3-6, 2010 New York
Summary
The researchers of this article looked to develop a more intelligent, conversational assistant for the web, capable of performing tasks on users' behalf as instructed through a simple textual interface. Using a various amount of parsing commands, CoCo (the assistant) could interpret normal English phrases instead of commands built with a strict syntax.
Their experience with CoCo showed that it was capable of performing a variety of web tasks and returned results to let them know what had been done. Their system relied on open API's such as Twitter, email, Unix CLI, and a REST API.
Discussion
I found this article interesting. I felt like it was something actually practical, versus a few of the articles I have read earlier on. It could be very beneficial for common users that would like some automation but don't understand code well enough to do it themselves.
This sounds like extremely exciting work, very interesting
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