IR Design for Application-Specific Natural Language: A Case Study on Traffic Data
This addresses performance bottlenecks for software applications in the transportation industry using ASNL, though it is incremental as it builds on existing DSL and IR concepts.
The paper tackled the computational complexity and performance issues in parsing Application-Specific Natural Language (ASNL) for transportation data by designing an intermediate representation (IR) that processes data into a graph format, achieving over forty times speed improvement in query operations compared to standard XML.
In the realm of software applications in the transportation industry, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) have enjoyed widespread adoption due to their ease of use and various other benefits. With the ceaseless progress in computer performance and the rapid development of large-scale models, the possibility of programming using natural language in specified applications - referred to as Application-Specific Natural Language (ASNL) - has emerged. ASNL exhibits greater flexibility and freedom, which, in turn, leads to an increase in computational complexity for parsing and a decrease in processing performance. To tackle this issue, our paper advances a design for an intermediate representation (IR) that caters to ASNL and can uniformly process transportation data into graph data format, improving data processing performance. Experimental comparisons reveal that in standard data query operations, our proposed IR design can achieve a speed improvement of over forty times compared to direct usage of standard XML format data.