Natural language processing: Challenges and future directions

Z Kaddari, Y Mellah, J Berrich, MG Belkasmi… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2020 - Springer
Natural language processing (NLP) is a well-known sub-field of artificial intelligence that is
having huge success and attention in recent years, its applications are also exploding in …

In-call experience enhancement for assistant systems

X Liu, B Liu, R Subba - US Patent 11,238,239, 2022 - Google Patents
2009/0282033 A1 11/2009 Alshawi 2010/0217604 A1 8/2010 Baldwin et al. 2010/0295676
A1 11/2010 Khachaturov et al. 2011/0246383 A1 10/2011 Gibson et al. 2012/0035932 A1 …

TOAD: Task-Oriented Automatic Dialogs with Diverse Response Styles

Y Liu, Y Fang, D Vandyke, N Collier - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.10137, 2024 - arxiv.org
In light of recent advances in large language models~(LLMs), the expectations for the next
generation of virtual assistants include enhanced naturalness and adaptability across …

Multimodal entity and coreference resolution for assistant systems

S Poddar, S Moon, PA Crook, R Subba - US Patent 11,443,120, 2022 - Google Patents
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing visual data from a client system
associated with a user, wherein the visual data comprises images portraying one or more …

Embedding Rasa in edge devices: capabilities and limitations

N Malamas, A Symeonidis - Procedia Computer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, there has been a boost in the use of commercial virtual assistants.
Obviously, these proprietary tools are well-performing, however the functionality they offer is …

Smart cameras enabled by assistant systems

LX Huang, E Xiao, NMA Benson, Y Sheng… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input from a user from a client
system associated with the user, wherein the client system comprises one or more cameras …

Speech recognition accuracy with natural-language understanding based meta-speech systems for assistant systems

F Peng, J Li, J Yu - US Patent 11,403,466, 2022 - Google Patents
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system associated with a first
user, a first audio input. The method includes generating multiple transcriptions …

Semantic representations using structural ontology for assistant systems

A Aghajanyan, S Gupta, B Moran, TF Levin… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input comprising a natural-
language utterance by an assistant xbot from a client system associated with a user …

[HTML][HTML] A Multilayer Architecture towards the Development and Distribution of Multimodal Interface Applications on the Edge

N Malamas, K Panayiotou, A Karabatea, E Tsardoulias… - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Today, Smart Assistants (SAs) are supported by significantly improved Natural Language
Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) engines as well as AI …

Toward hardware-aware deep-learning-based dialogue systems

V Pandelea, E Ragusa, T Young, P Gastaldo… - Neural Computing and …, 2022 - Springer
In the past few years, the use of transformer-based models has experienced increasing
popularity as new state-of-the-art performance was achieved in several natural language …