Traditionally, Alexa has interpreted customer requests according to their intents and slots. If you say, “Alexa, play ‘What’s Going On?’ by Marvin Gaye,” ...
Computerized question-answering systems usually take one of two approaches. Either they do a text search and try to infer the semantic relationships between ...
The last few years have seen great advances in the design of language models, which are a critical component of language-based AI systems. Language models ...
Amazon is a gold sponsor of this year’s meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and Amazon researchers are ...
The annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is, according to Google Scholar’s rankings, the preeminent conference on ...
Kathleen McKeown is the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild professor of computer science at Columbia University, and the founding director of the school’s Data ...
Amazon product pages include sections in which customers can both ask and answer questions, and like most community-access online forums, they’ve become ...
Question answering through reading comprehension is a popular task in natural-language processing. It’s a task many people know from standardized tests: a ...
Practical question-answering systems often use a technique called answer selection. Given a question — say, “When was Serena Williams born?” — they perform ...
Community product question answering (PQA) is a popular and important feature on e-commerce websites. Customers ask, for example, “Will these jeans shrink ...