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'''Natural-language programming''' ('''NLP''') is an [[ontology (information science)|ontology]]-assisted way of [[programming language|programming]] in terms of [[natural language|natural-language]] sentences, e.g. [[English language|English]].<ref>Miller, Lance A. "Natural language programming: Styles, strategies, and contrasts." IBM Systems Journal 20.2 (1981): 184–215.</ref> A structured document with Content, sections and subsections for explanations of sentences forms a NLP document, which is actually a [[computer program]]. Natural languages and [[natural language user interface|natural-language user interface]]s include [[Inform#Inform 7|Inform7]], a natural programming language for making interactive fiction, Ring,<ref name="ringlanguage">{{cite web |url=https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1200766/Using-the-Natural-Language-Programming-Library-NLP |title=Using the Natural Language Programming Library (NLPL) in the Ring Programming Language |author=Fayed |date=9 March 2018 |work=codeproject.com |publisher=[[Code_Project]]}}</ref><ref name="ringlanguage2">{{cite web |url=https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1138605/Natural-Language-Programming-in-the-Ring-Programmi |title=Natural Language Programming in the Ring Programming Language |author=Fayed |date=9 March 2018 |work=codeproject.com |publisher=[[Code_Project]]}}</ref> a general-purpose language, [[Shakespeare (programming language)|Shakespeare]], an [[Esoteric programming language|esoteric]] natural programming language in the style of the plays of [[William Shakespeare]], [[Wolfram Alpha]], a computational knowledge engine, using natural-language input.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} and [[Plain English Programming]], the best illustration of what future programming will be like that can actually be used today, a natural subset of natural language actual and that makes it interesting and well worth studying to understand how it does what it does. |title= - Reference: The Osmosian Order of Plain English Programmers Blog | {{cite web|url=(https://osmosianplainenglishprogramming.blog/2018/05/16/the-journey-begins/|) Some methods for [[program synthesis]] are based on natural-language programming.<ref>Desai, Aditya, et al. "[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.00413 Program synthesis using natural language]." Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering. ACM, 2016.</ref>

==Interpretation==