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- How is Zlang pronounced?
- What is Zlang technology?
- Isn't this just speech recognition?
- Do I have to learn new commands to control my Zlang enabled
application?
- What is the relationship between Zlang and proLengua?
- Is Zlang limited to a particular platform, such as Windows 98 or
NT?
- How can third parties integrate Zlang technology into their
Web applications?
The correct pronunciation is "slang",
but "zee lang" is also natural and acceptable.
Zlang is a software technology that can make other
software applications easier to use by allowing them to be controlled using natural
language.
No. This is actually language recognition, were
your requests are analyzed to determine a subsequent action. Some consider this
"artificial intelligence". Requests to Zlang-enabled products can be entered
using the keyboard. Optionally, speech recognition can be used as the input method. As
speech recognition matures, it could become the dominant way of interacting with
Zlang-enabled applications
No. The premise of Zlang is that it should assume
the responsibility for understanding your users. They only do what comes natural by
describing what they want (as if they were telling a person to do it). If Zlang needs more
information, or a clarification, it should ask the user specific questions. Users will
achieve the highest degree of success when they employ correct grammar and spelling.
Zlang refers to the underlying technology that
makes language recognition work. proLengua is an integrated development environment
for building Web-based Zlang applications.
No. Zlang and proLengua technologies are
implemented using platform-independent Java (1.2 or greater), so any platform supporting
such a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) can run Zlang. You can obtain the JVM for most popular
operating systems from http://java.sun.com.
Using proLengua, developers design language
templates to handle natural language queries. When these templates are developed and
fully tested, they can be deployed on a Zlang Web Service server. The Zlang Web
Service adheres to the emerging Web Services standard (utilizing SOAP, WSDL, etc.), so the
Zlang language engine can be accessed by virtually any client, including VBScript, Perl,
Java, C/C++, JavaScript, etc. One important part of the template that the template
designer creates is the template result. This result can be any
kind of text, such as HTML, or a an executable script. The result can also contain
selected information about the match itself.
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