Natural Language I/F for Agents
- Dynamic military situations will require people to task and query agents using complex commands.
- Unconstrained natural language is still not tractable in many situations.
- Humans can task and query agents using complex but understandable commands in constrained natural language.
- This technology can mix pervasively into all applications, both on the desktop and the Web.
- Thesis: Natural language-enhanced user-to-agent communication will simplify basic human-agent interactions while making it possible for humans to formulate complex agent requests.
- Approach: Agents communicate with people and other agents using restricted languages for stating complex queries and commands
- How: AgentGram extends agents with natural language middleware wrappers, dynamically loads grammars, and uses menu-based natural language to query and task agents. Works over the web with many users, can auto-generate NLI interfaces to DBMS, works with speech, and is on the CoABS grid.