nlq
08 Sep 2025 - 18 Aug 2026
- Mostly prep for a Clojure conf talk. Problem is it isn't very interesting.
- Natural Language interfaces for scientific computing
- Abstract
- Previous work in end-user scientific computing has focused on manipulable visual representations of programs. LLMs technology provides an alternate path for non-programmers to engage with the complexity of scientific data. This talk will esplore the use of LLMs, ontologies, and domain-specific languages to support natural language queries, visualization, and general computing. Clojure's flexibility as back-end, front-end, and knowledge representation language is a key enabler.
- Career regrets
- Datomic generation
- UI elements
- Dealing with bugs
- Query presentation and refinement (Enflame)
- 2nd case: dataviz (datalog --> vega)
- extension to new domains and query langs
References
- See AskMendel/Notes
- that paper on scientific question answering
Examples
