A reliable natural language interface to household appliances

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 189-196

  Yates, Alexander ^a   Etzioni, Oren ^a   Weld, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Appliance; Database; Natural language interface; Planner

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; COMPUTER MONITORS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELIABILITY;

LANGUAGE PARSING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0038720389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/604045.604075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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