Remote Intelligent Assistant (REIA)

ABSTRACT One of the fundamental means of interaction with any operating system is the command-line user interface (CLI). The use of CLI helps users to leverage the full potential of operating system. A widespread problem among CLI users is to learn the shell commands of operating system. This hinders the ability of users to effectively use any operating system. We aim to provide a natural language interface in the form of an Intelligent Assistant (IA) as a solution. This IA would understand natural language and then translate them into a logically and semantically correct sequence of Linux shell commands. The highlight of this assistant is that, it allows this using remote access. This IA accesses the full capabilities of Linux CLI. We propose to understand and extract information from the user's natural language input and then generate corresponding shell commands in an application. Our attempt to provide this solution has yielded significant results in natural language translation to shell commands. This paper demonstrates the application of natural language processing that can be extended as an IA in a Linux system.