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 otherwise repetitive computer 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 large new dataset of challenging but commonly used Bash commands and expert-written English descriptions, along with the baseline methods to establish performance levels on this task.
@InProceedings{LIN18.1021, author = {Xi Victoria Lin and Chenglong Wang and Luke Zettlemoyer and Michael D. Ernst}, title = "{NL2Bash: A Corpus and Semantic Parser for Natural Language Interface to the Linux Operating System}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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