NL2Bash: A Corpus and Semantic Parser for Natural Language Interface to the Linux Operating System
This work addresses the challenge of enabling users to interact with the Linux operating system using natural language, though it is incremental as a first step in this domain.
The authors tackled the problem of mapping English sentences to Bash commands (NL2Bash) by introducing a new dataset of Bash commands with expert-written English descriptions and baseline methods to set performance benchmarks.
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 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 new dataset of challenging but commonly used Bash commands and expert-written English descriptions, along with baseline methods to establish performance levels on this task.