Natural Language Technology in Mobile Devices: Two Grounding Frameworks

Author(s):  
Jerome R. Bellegarda
Author(s):  
Elisabeth André ◽  
Jean-Claude Martin

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth in the development of multimodal systems. Improving technology and tools enable the development of more intuitive styles of interaction and convenient ways of accessing large data archives. Starting from the observation that natural language plays an integral role in many multimodal systems, this chapter focuses on the use of natural language in combination with other modalities, such as body gestures or gaze. It addresses the following three issues: (1) how to integrate multimodal input including spoken or typed language in a synergistic manner; (2) how to combine natural language with other modalities in order to generate more effective output; and (3) how to make use of natural language technology in combination with other modalities in order to enable better access to information.


2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-189
Author(s):  
ROBERT DALE

“Powerset Hype to Boiling Point”, said a February headline on TechCrunch. In the last installment of this column, I asked whether 2007 would be the year of question-answering. My query was occasioned by a number of new attempts at natural language question-answering that were being promoted in the marketplace as the next advance upon search, and particularly by the buzz around the stealth-mode natural language search company Powerset. That buzz continued with a major news item in the first quarter of this year: in February, Xerox PARC and PowerSet struck a much-anticipated deal whereby PowerSet won exclusive rights to use PARC's natural language technology, as announced in a VentureBeat posting. Following the scoop, other news sources drew the battle lines with titles like “Can natural language search bring down Google?”, “Xerox vs. Google?”, and “Powerset and Xerox PARC team up to beat Google”. An April posting on Barron's Online noted that an analyst at Global Equities Research had cited Powerset in his downgrading of Google from Buy to Neutral. And, all this on the basis of a product which, at the time of writing, very few people have actually seen. Indications are that the search engine is expected to go live by the end of the year, so we have a few more months to wait to see whether this really is a Google-killer. Meanwhile, another question remaining unanswered is what happened to the Powerset engineer who seemed less sure about the technology's capabilities: see the segment at the end of D7TV's PartyCrasher video from the Powerset launch party. For a more confident appraisal of natural language search, check out the podcast of Barney Pell, CEO of Powerset, giving a lecture at the University of California–Berkeley.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2066 (1) ◽  
pp. 012048
Author(s):  
Lin Chen

Abstract With the rapid development of speech recognition technology, voice chat robot has become a breakthrough of artificial intelligence. Voice chat robot should be a typical application field of customer service, providing customers with efficient and convenient service all day. The traditional customer service center is mainly based on telephone service, facing the problems of large number of customers, high maintenance cost, slow knowledge update, limited service time, low training cost and so on. So, at the same time, the use habits of customers have also changed fundamentally. The vast majority of services and transactions can be carried out through the Internet, such as Taobao and Jingdong. However, the quality and cost of voice services can be greatly reduced through the interaction between robots and channelization voice service centers. Through the research and development of natural language technology, an intelligent and centralized mobile communication service application platform is constructed by using we-chat platform. Through natural language processing, machine learning, big data computing and other technological innovation, we focus on the use of online robot recognition to understand customer problems and timely feedback customer needs. The results show that in the statistics of customer service machine problems, the highest proportion of consumers’ problems about payment is 37%, and the lowest is 29%.


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