Enhancing interaction with to-do lists using artificial assistants

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-07-04, Issue , 2007, Pages 43-51

  Gil, Yolanda ^a   Chklovski, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORIES; OFFICE ASSISTANT ARCHITECTURE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 37349089370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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