ubiquity:
mitcho
Michael Erlewine
ITSP special lecture, Tokyo
June 3, 2009

~1980: GUI
= Graphical User Interface

“Desktop” metaphor
WIMP:
• Window
• Icon
• Menu
• Pointer (mouse)

CC-BY-NC-SA: flickr.com/
photos/pixcat/2324175139/

1984

1997

2001

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from http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/img/lopez1.png

Aza Raskin
CC-BY-NC: flickr.com/photos/
santheo/2360961001/

ACM interactions 2008

text-based interface
“Standard GUIs, with their drop-down menus,
check buttons, and tree-lists, cannot compare
to the range of options that a text interface
effortlessly provides. With just five
alphanumeric characters, we can choose one
out of 100,000,000 possible sequences... It’s
difficult to come up with a non-text-based
interface that can perform as well.”

?

text-based interface
“...maybe this confusion isn’t the fault of
command-line interfaces in general; maybe
it’s just the command lines we’re used to. If
commands were memorable, and their syntax
forgiving, perhaps we wouldn’t be so scared
to reconsider these interface paradigms.
Perhaps the linguistic command line is the
future of computing.”

text-based interface
“...maybe this confusion isn’t the fault of
command-line interfaces in general; maybe
it’s just the command lines we’re used to. If
commands were memorable, and their syntax
forgiving, perhaps we wouldn’t be so scared
to reconsider these interface paradigms.
Perhaps the linguistic command line is the
future of computing.”

ubiquity

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ubiquity =

open APIs

*JavaScript

verbs*
*JavaScript

CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
name: \"flip-page\",
preview: \"Flips the entire page upside down. \"
+ \"<span style='-moz-transform:rotate(180deg)'>\"
+ \"Useful for bats</span>.\",
execute: function() {
var document = CmdUtils.getDocument();
var matrix = jQuery(document.body).css(\"-moz-transform\");
jQuery(document.body).css(\"-moz-transform\",
\"rotate(\"
+(getRotationFromMatrix(matrix)+Math.PI)+\"rad)\");
}
});

ubiquity

ubiquity
Mozilla Labs
2008 8
:
:
: Enso, QuickSilver, GNOME Do
: ubiquibot
http://ubiquity.mozilla.com
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/

...

...
( )
internationalization/localization

...
( )
internationalization/localization
( )
globalization

...
( )
globalization

The multilingual internet:
1. The Internet is disconnected by language.

The Internet, 2005
CC-BY: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Internet_map_4096.png

The Internet, 2005: jp, cn, tw, au, de
CC-BY: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Internet_map_4096.png

The Internet, 2005
CC-BY: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Internet_map_4096.png

The Internet, 2005: ut, it, pl, fr
CC-BY: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Internet_map_4096.png

The multilingual internet:
2. The tools of the future must be multilingual.

( )
internationalization/localization

ubiquity 0.1

ubiquity 0.1
English

Afrikaans Esperanto Gaeilge
Shqip suomi ਪ\"ਜਾਬੀ
Italiano
‫ﻋﺮﺑﻲ‬ Français română
Euskara Frysk Русский
Беларуская Galego српски
বাংলা (ভারত) ქართული Kurdî සිංහල
català-valencià Deutsch Latviešu slovenčina
( ) Ελληνικά lietuvių kalba slovensko
ગ\"જરાતી Македонски Español (Argentina)
( ) Монгол Español (de España)
‫עברית‬ Norsk bokmål
Čeština Svenska
!ह#दी (भारत) Norsk nynorsk
Dansk ไทย
Nederlands Magyar polski Türkçe
English (British) íslenska Português (do Brasil) Українська
English (US) Bahasa Indonesia Português (Europeu)

Afrikaans Esperanto Gaeilge
Shqip suomi ਪ\"ਜਾਬੀ
Italiano
‫ﻋﺮﺑﻲ‬ Français română
Euskara Frysk Русский
Беларуская Galego српски
বাংলা (ভারত) ქართული Kurdî සිංහල
català-valencià Deutsch Latviešu slovenčina
( ) Ελληνικά lietuvių kalba slovensko
ગ\"જરાતી Македонски Español (Argentina)
( ) Монгол Español (de España)
‫עברית‬ Norsk bokmål
Čeština Svenska
!ह#दी (भारत) Norsk nynorsk
Dansk ไทย
Nederlands Magyar polski Türkçe
English (British) íslenska Português (do Brasil) Українська
English (US) Bahasa Indonesia Português (Europeu)

ubiquity

ubiquity
• natural syntax ( )
•
•
• mitcho.com/blog/projects/
how-natural-should-a-
natural-interface-be/

ubiquity
• : OK
•
•

ubiquity
• : OK
•
•
•
• s/ / /

ubiquity
•
• Principles and Parameters
( )
•
• (functional words)
OK

parser* * JavaScript

parser* * JavaScript

parser* * JavaScript

parser* * JavaScript
N N V

parser* * JavaScript
N N V
goal object

parser* * JavaScript
N N V
goal object
V ( goal, object )

ubiquity
[demo time!]

ubiquity
(semantic roles)

ubiquity
(semantic roles)

ubiquity
(semantic roles)
object ø
goal to
position at, on

ubiquity
(semantic roles)
object ø
goal to
position at, on

ubiquity
(semantic roles)
object ø
goal to
position at, on

ubiquity
(semantic roles)
object ø
goal to
position at, on

ubiquity
(semantic roles)
CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
names: [\"email\", \"mail\"],
arguments: [
{role: \"object\", nountype: noun_arb_text},
{role: \"goal\", nountype: noun_type_contact}
],
...

ubiquity
(semantic roles)
CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
names: [\"email\", \"mail\"],
arguments: [
{role: \"object\", nountype: noun_arb_text},
{role: \"goal\", nountype: noun_type_contact}
],
...

ubiquity
:
branching: 'left',
usespaces: false,
joindelimiter: '',
anaphora: [\"これ\", \"それ\", \"あれ\"],
roles: [
{role: 'object', delimiter: 'を'},
{role: 'goal', delimiter: 'に'},
{role: 'source', delimiter: 'から'},
{role: 'position', delimiter: 'で'},
{role: 'position', delimiter: 'に'},
{role: 'instrument', delimiter: 'で'},
{role: 'alias', delimiter: 'として'},
]

ubiquity 0.5
with Parser 2

ubiquity 0.5
with Parser 2
Català
Dansk Português
English Svenska
Français
Italiano < your language here* >
* mitcho.com/blog/how-to/adding-your-language-to-ubiquity-parser-2/

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