LANGUAGE-DRIVEN SYSTEM DESIGN

Language Driven System Design

Studies have shown significant benefits of the use of Domain-Specific Languages. However, designing a DSL still seems to be an art, rather than a craft following a clear methodology. In this paper, we discuss a first step towards a methodology for designing such languages. The presented approach, which is referred to as the Language-Driven Approach, is rooted in formal techniques and independen...

Language-Driven, Technology-Enhanced Instructional Systems Design

In this paper we propose to extend the ADDIE (Analysis – Design – Development – Implementation – Evaluation) process for Instructional Systems Design (ISD) with a new linguistic layer. This layer allows developers to provide instructors with domain-specific languages to support and guide them through ISD. Instructors use the toolsets associated with these languages to produce technology-enhance...

Requirements-driven Satellite System Design

The Skynet 5 system will provide military satellite communications to all three UK armed services, and is to be procured as a ‘private finance initiative’ (PFI). Though there are many PFI projects across all parts of the public sector, this is the first time that such an approach has been taken for providing military satellite communications. On 26 February 2002, the Ministry of Defence announc...

A speech driven language translation system

A Data-driven Spoken Language Understanding System

This paper presents a purely data-driven spoken language understanding (SLU) system. It consists of three major components, a speech recognizer, a semantic parser, and a dialog act decoder. A novel feature of the system is that the understanding components are trained directly from data without using explicit semantic grammar rules or fully-annotated corpus data. Despite this, the system is nev...