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

Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by fatbat on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @06:29PM (#4573049)

I am interested in the calendar + reminder domain of it. More so if it works offline (ie- Soundhound/Shazam app).

Can you elaborate on the calendar domain?

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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by pdat on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @06:43PM (#4573114)

hi,

Well currently we support 4 actions within calendar, "CREATE_EVENT", "SEARCH_CALENDAR", "MODIFY_EVENT" and "DELETE_EVENT". There are a number of different entities including "dateRange, lengthOfTime, timeRange, date, time, meetingTopic, contactName, friendOrRelative, location, originalTime, originalDate, originalLocation, replacementTime, replacementDate" and a few others I'm sure I've missed.

For reminder we support "CREATE_REMINDER" and "SEARCH_REMINDER", we also support the entities "message", "time" and "arrivalLocation" and "leaveLocation". Does this answer your question or did you want a more specific answer? If you want more information feel free to email us directly :) .

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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by fatbat on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @06:56PM (#4573168)

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

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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by jpantony on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:00PM (#4573189)

Currently we support relative to the current time ("three hours from now") or absolute ("six pm"). We'd be happy to extend it however if we saw demand for extra functionality :) .

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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by fatbat on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:07PM (#4573231)

A strtotime() with voice? Awesome and thank you!

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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by apetresc on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:00PM (#4573191)

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)

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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by vhf on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @08:08AM (#4575161)

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

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