NLify: Lightweight spoken natural language interfaces via exhaustive paraphrasing

UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 429-438

  Han, Seungyeop ^a   Philipose, Matthai ^b   Ju, Yun Cheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Paraphrasing; Spoken natural language interface; Third party mobile applications

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; PARAPHRASING; SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE; STATISTICAL RECOGNITION;

DESIGN; FACE RECOGNITION; MOBILE COMPUTING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84885212561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493432.2493458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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