Learning text editing tasks from examples: a procedural approach

Mo, Dan Hua; Witten, Ian H.

doi:10.1080/01449299208924317

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“…One major class of PBD systems aims to synthesize task automation scripts so that users do not need to manually write scripting code. These span a variety of application domains including text manipulation [28,49,61,64,74,75], file and directory management [39,65,66], image editing [46,47,53,60], webpage task automation [51,52,58,73], web data scraping [30,50,55], and data wrangling [38,40,43]. Although their domains vary widely, these systems all generate scripts or processed data as outputs.…”

Section: Programming By Demonstrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bespoke: Interactively Synthesizing Custom GUIs from Command-Line Applications By Demonstration

Vaithilingam

Guo

2019

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Programmers, researchers, system administrators, and data scientists often build complex workflows based on commandline applications. To give these power users the well-known benefits of GUIs, we created Bespoke, a system that synthesizes custom GUIs by observing user demonstrations of command-line apps. Bespoke unifies the two main forms of desktop human-computer interaction (command-line and GUI) via a hybrid approach that combines the flexibility and composability of the command line with the usability and discoverability of GUIs. To assess the versatility of Bespoke, we ran an open-ended study where participants used it to create their own GUIs in domains that personally motivated them. They made a diverse set of GUIs for use cases such as cloud computing management, machine learning prototyping, lecture video transcription, integrated circuit design, remote code deployment, and gaming server management. Participants reported that the benefit of these bespoke GUIs was that they exposed only the most relevant subset of options required for their specific needs. In contrast, vendor-made GUIs usually include far more panes, menus, and settings since they must accommodate a wider range of use cases.

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Section: Programming By Demonstrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bespoke: Interactively Synthesizing Custom GUIs from Command-Line Applications By Demonstration

Vaithilingam

Guo

2019

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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“…However, Mondrian does not provide domain independence and high-level application knowledge either. Similarly, in TELS [26] the system takes into account the user's actions, inferring iteration patterns for addressing loops and conditions. TELS enables the end-user to meet the inference process, by asking for her/him opinion.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent Assistance in Authoring Dynamically Generated Web Interfaces

Macías

2008

World Wide Web

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“…Some Lieberman's earlier work like Mondrian (described in [5]) was based on AppleScript to monitor the user and control applications, but it does not exploit its domain independence and high-level application knowledge. Similarly, in TELS [17] the system takes into account the user's actions, inferring iteration patters for addressing loops and conditions. TELS enables the end-user to meet the inference process, by asking for her opinion.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Finding Iteration Patterns in Dynamic Web Page Authoring

Macías

Castells

2005

Engineering Human Computer Interaction and Interactive Systems

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El acceso a la versión del editor puede requerir la suscripción del recurso Access to the published version may require subscription Abstract. Most of the current WWW is made up of dynamic pages. The development of dynamic pages is a difficult and costly endeavour, out-of-reach for most users, experts, and content producers. We have developed a set of techniques to support the edition of dynamic web pages in a WYSIWYG environment. In this paper we focus on specific techniques for inferring changes to page generation procedures from users actions on examples of the pages generated by these procedures. More specifically, we propose techniques for detecting iteration patterns in users' behavior in web page editing tasks involving page structures like lists, tables and other iterative HTML constructs. Such patterns are used in our authoring tool, DESK, where a specialized assistant, DESK-A, detects iteration patterns and generates, using Programming by Example, a programmatic representation of the user's actions. Iteration patterns help obtain a more detailed characterization of users' intent, based on user monitoring techniques, that is put in relation to application knowledge automatically extracted by our system from HTML pages. DESK-A relieves end-users from having to learn programming and specification languages for editing dynamic-generated web pages.

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Learning text editing tasks from examples: a procedural approach

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

Bespoke: Interactively Synthesizing Custom GUIs from Command-Line Applications By Demonstration

Bespoke: Interactively Synthesizing Custom GUIs from Command-Line Applications By Demonstration

Intelligent Assistance in Authoring Dynamically Generated Web Interfaces

Finding Iteration Patterns in Dynamic Web Page Authoring

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