Method and system for controlling target applications based upon a natural language command string

A natural language translator system that controls at least one target application based upon a natural language command string from a user, said natural language translator system comprising:

• a natural language command string receive subsystem that receives said natural language command string from said user;
• a parse subsystem that parses said natural language command string to create a list of tokens contained in said natural language command string, each token of said list of tokens being a word or defined phrase in said natural language command string;
• a symbol and cardinal determination subsystem that determines a symbol and cardinals for each token in said list of tokens as a function of an analysis of a domain specific language definition stored on said computer system, said symbol being representative of said token and said cardinals being parameters that describe a usage and an order-of-operation for each token;
• an element creation subsystem that creates in a semantic manifold an element for each token in said list of tokens such that said semantic manifold contains a list of elements corresponding to said list of tokens, said element being a data structure that stores said symbol and said cardinals of a token,
• a job queue creation subsystem that creates a queue of jobs based on elements in said semantic manifold as a function of an order-of-operation and element prescriptions in said domain specific language definition and said cardinals of each element in said list of elements of said semantic manifold, a job being at least one procedure defined in said domain specific language definition declaring operations to create a translation of an element into code and/or configurations that controls said at least one target application;
• a first job selection subsystem that selects a first job in said queue of jobs as a selected job based on said order-of-operations and element prescriptions in said domain specific language definition;
• a job execution subsystem that executes said selected job in order to create a command translation built from execution of each job in said queue of jobs;
• a semantic manifold change detection subsystem that determines if said list of elements in said semantic manifold has changed and, when said list of elements in said semantic manifold is determined to be changed, returns operation to said job queue creation subsystem, and, when said list of elements in said semantic manifold is determined not to be changed, sends operation to a last job determination subsystem;
• said last job determination subsystem that determines if said selected job is a last job in said job queue and, when said selected job is determined to not be a last job in said job queue, sends operation to a select next job determination subsystem, and, when said selected job is determined to be said last job in said job queue sends operation to a command translation processing subsystem;
• said next job determination subsystem that selects a next job in said queue of jobs as said selected job based on said order-of-operations and element prescriptions in said domain specific language definition and returns operation by said computer system to said job execution subsystem;
• said command translation processing subsystem that processes said command translation to create command code and/or configurations that control operation of said at least one target application;
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• a command execution subsystem that executes said command code and/or configurations to control operation of said at least one target application.