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CUI [3 records]

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Record 1 2025-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

A conversational interface is an interface in which the user and assistant communicate by making utterances back and forth in a conversational manner.

OBS

conversational user interface; CUI; conversational interface : designations validated by Canadian subject-field experts from Concordia University, Dalhousie University, Laval University and Microsoft Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

[...] l'application étant réduite à l'écriture de règles en langage courant exploitées par un moteur toujours identique et déjà pourvu d'une interface utilisateur conversationnelle, l'écriture du logiciel devient réellement à la portée du non-informaticien.

OBS

interface utilisateur conversationnelle; interface conversationnelle : désignations validées par des spécialistes canadiens de l'Université Concordia, de l'Université Dalhousie, de l'Université Laval et de Microsoft Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

Microsoft Agent versión 2.0 [gestiona] la animación de [personajes animados interactivos] e incluye soporte para tecnologías complementarias como entrada y salida de habla, entre otras. Esto favorece y ensancha la comunicación que fluye entre un usuario y sus aplicaciones y permite desarrollar una interfaz de usuario conversacional con un ancho de banda contenido.

CONT

Los personajes pueden mejorar las interfaces conversacionales mediante señales como inclinaciones de cabeza, asentimientos, o movimientos que indican que el motor de habla está en estado de escucha y que algo está siendo reconocido.

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Record 2 2025-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Intelligence (Military)
  • Security
DEF

Sensitive information that does not meet the criteria for classification but must still be protected.

OBS

[CUI] is government-created or owned ["unclassified"] information that allows for, or requires, safeguarding and dissemination controls in accordance with laws, regulations or government-wide policies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Renseignement (Militaire)
  • Sécurité
OBS

Les informations non classifiées contrôlées [...] sont des informations qui nécessitent une protection ou des contrôles de divulgation conformément aux lois et politiques gouvernementales, mais qui ne sont pas classifiées.

OBS

information non classifiée contrôlée; renseignement non classifié contrôlé : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • informations non classifiées contrôlées
  • renseignements non classifiés contrôlés

Spanish

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Record 3 1995-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A windowed environment with icons and an on-screen cursor to facilitate the selection of commands, files, etc. The opposite is a command-line environment. (J.J. Manger, The Essential Internet Information Guide, Mc Graw-Hill, 1994, p. 351).

OBS

An interface program invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre(PARC). Compare to other computer command systems such as GUI-graphical user interface(pronounced gooey), and CLI(pronounced see-ell-eye) for command-line interface, that Microsoft has seen fit to rename as CUI-command-user-interface(pronounced cooey).

Key term(s)
  • GUI
  • CLI
  • CUI

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
  • Infographie
OBS

Environnement utilisateur-icône-souris-fenêtre.

Spanish

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