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title: Metafor
date: "2005-03-29T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 695
description: I'm exploring Metafor, an MIT Media Lab tool that translates natural language English into programming code. It uses common-sense reasoning to map descriptive sentences to object-oriented structures, showcased in their bartender movie demonstration.
keywords: [metafor, natural language programming, mit media lab, hugo liu, software engineering, common-sense reasoning]
---

Metafor is a [tool that turns English into code](http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/032305/Tool_turns_English_to_code_032305.html). Check out the [movie demo](http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Ehugo/demos/metafor-bartender-simple.mov) and [Hugo's Metafor website](http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/research/#metafor).