Natural language programming for multimedia information

Learning a programming language is difficult for the beginner of the computer. Therefore, it is necessary to build an intelligent programming environment in which the program can be written directly in the grammar of one's mother tongue. In this paper, we propose a model of an intelligent programming environment that is oriented to the Japanese. In this model, the text that describes in Japanese the layout of multimedia contents and the relationship between two multimedia contents can be parsed with the technology of machine translation translated into an executable program, and executed. As an application of the proposed model, an environment called ACORNS is implemented. The performance study of ACORNS is performed. The results of the performance study shows that the proposed model is robust.