Building a natural language understanding application using a received electronic record containing programming code including an interpret-block and an interpret-statement

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer instructions recorded thereon for building a natural language understanding application, the computer instructions, when executed on one or more processors, causing the one or more processors to implement operations comprising:

• generating at least one electronic record containing programming code,
• wherein the programming code includes an interpret-block,
• wherein the interpret-block includes an interpret-statement;
• the programming code being executable by a processor such that execution by the processor causes the processor to create a parse tree and an interpretation of a sequence of input tokens.

A system for building a natural language understanding application having a processor programmed with instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to implement operations comprising:

• generating at least one electronic record containing programming code,
• wherein the programming code includes an interpret-block,
• wherein the interpret-block includes an interpret-statement;
• the programming code being executable by a processor such that execution by the processor causes the processor to create a parse and an interpretation of a sequence of input tokens.