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NL2Bash: A Corpus and Semantic Parser for Natural Language Interface to the Linux Operating System

Computation and Language 2018-03-05 v2 Software Engineering

Abstract

We present new data and semantic parsing methods for the problem of mapping English sentences to Bash commands (NL2Bash). Our long-term goal is to enable any user to perform operations such as file manipulation, search, and application-specific scripting by simply stating their goals in English. We take a first step in this domain, by providing a new dataset of challenging but commonly used Bash commands and expert-written English descriptions, along with baseline methods to establish performance levels on this task.

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@article{arxiv.1802.08979,
  title  = {NL2Bash: A Corpus and Semantic Parser for Natural Language Interface to the Linux Operating System},
  author = {Xi Victoria Lin and Chenglong Wang and Luke Zettlemoyer and Michael D. Ernst},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.08979},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Accepted at the Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2018

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