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How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

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Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

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Hi! Thanks for the reply! One more quick one. :) Are the "time" entities relative or absolute time or either?

We normalize relative times so that they're absolute. So, "remind me to marinate the chicken in 2 hours" will get normalized to 6:00 PM (assuming it's being said at 4:00 PM)

How do you deal with "Every two weeks for the next 20 years" ?

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

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It's not compatible with any of my devices, a Galaxy Nexus and a Transformer Prime. Any idea why?

What country are you in? We're currently only available in Canada and the US but we're expanding very soon.

Would you be willing to send me the .apk (I'm from Slovenia, and would like to try your service, and I'm a developer, so I'd understand if it rejected/got confused with some queries)?

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

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As written in the article, the technology is meant to understand short queries, in other words short commands.

I guess everybody agrees, nowadays entering commands to any kind of machine is still much more accurate and quicker if you use your hands for doing so.

This said, i think the technologies is in particular useful in situations in which you are not able to use your hands. This could be for example because you are busy working or you are handicapped. So one idea which comes to my mind would be an assistant for handicapped people, e.g. a device which can be used to control an electric wheelchair.

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

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You'd be a whole lot better of saying you've written a natural-language interface to a number of search domains. You're promising a lot by claiming to have an API that not only accomplishes understanding (which, contrary to your claim, is reserved for much deeper and more structured inferences than what you're providing here -- are you transforming sentences into a formal language before feeding it to epicurious, or…

I agree. I took the headline as a hypothetical question. The system described is the most pragmatic of natural language processing systems, a lovely term that just means the input is natural language and there is some processing. I'm optimistic, by the way, and think that though "objective" word meaning is a cognitive illusion, we will crack the code within the next 20 years. But there is nothing on the forefront of…

I hate to make this discussion religious but NLU is widely used in industry to refer to systems such as ours. Daniel Jurafasky a professor at Stanford well known in industry uses NLU on page 822 chapter 24 of the book "Speech and Language Processing" to refer to a hypothetical frame and slot system very similar to what we have built. A quick search for Natural Language Understanding on google scholar will yield numerous articles which use NLU as a blanket term to refer to concepts in information extraction and NLP. Finally, SRI itself uses the term NLU to refer to these tasks (see: http://www.ai.sri.com/natural-language/projects/arpa-sls/ ). Hence I believe the terminology we used is in fact completely appropriate.

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

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I agree. I took the headline as a hypothetical question. The system described is the most pragmatic of natural language processing systems, a lovely term that just means the input is natural language and there is some processing. I'm optimistic, by the way, and think that though "objective" word meaning is a cognitive illusion, we will crack the code within the next 20 years. But there is nothing on the forefront of…

I hate to make this discussion religious but NLU is widely used in industry to refer to systems such as ours. Daniel Jurafasky a professor at Stanford well known in industry uses NLU on page 822 chapter 24 of the book "Speech and Language Processing" to refer to a hypothetical frame and slot system very similar to what we have built. A quick search for Natural Language Understanding on google scholar will yield numer…

I appreciate your references, and I get where you're coming from, but that's not going to stop people from being disappointed by your claims. Just find a better name for it, and I'm sure people will like it more. The idea of being able to do voice recognition for something and being routed to one of many different domain-specific search engines is awesome, but it's a great example of the Searle's Chinese Room parable in practice. There's simply no understanding involved -- only heuristic.
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