Natural-language user interface

Natural-language user interface (LUI or NLUI) is a type of <a href="/facts/User_interface/e9sPEWVD">computer human interface</a> where linguistic phenomena such as verbs, phrases and clauses act as UI controls for creating, selecting and modifying data in software applications.
In <a href="/facts/Interface_design/bHpLP1ae">interface design</a>, natural-language interfaces are sought after for their speed and ease of use, but most suffer the challenges to <a href="/facts/Natural_language_understanding/5waCJC1e">understanding</a> wide varieties of <a href="/facts/Semantic_ambiguity/wILkPDaY">ambiguous input</a>.
Natural-language interfaces are an active area of study in the field of <a href="/facts/Natural-language_processing/1hjMKsSN">natural-language processing</a> and <a href="/facts/Computational_linguistics/XmegJ6LC">computational linguistics</a>. An intuitive general natural-language interface is one of the active goals of the <a href="/facts/Semantic_Web/NFHo9dB7">Semantic Web</a>.
Text interfaces are "natural" to varying degrees. Many formal (un-natural) programming languages incorporate idioms of natural human language. Likewise, a traditional <a href="/facts/Keyword_search/YgWSvPhl">keyword search</a> engine could be described as a "shallow" natural-language user interface.

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Natural-language user interface