ADAPTIVE NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE

A system and method for providing natural language interface for a computer system that interprets natural language user input and outputs responses using natural language are disclosed. The system (102) includes a natural language agent adapted to receive and interpret the natural language user input and to output an output command and at least one application agent adapted to receive and further interpret the output command from the natural language agent and to output an executable instruction to an application program. The natural language agent includes a syntactic parser (102b) adapted to generate a parsed sentence from the natural language user input, a semantic interpreter (102c) adapted to generate the output command from the parsed sentence, and an agent communication manager (102d) adapted to provide communication between the semantic interpreter. Each application agent may include a semantic task interpreter and at least one application wrapper.