Karen L. Myers

TL;DR: A natural language information querying system includes an indexing facility configured to automatically generate indices of updated textual sources based on one or more predefined grammars and a database coupled to the indexing facilities to store the indices for subsequent searching as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: SRI International participated in the MUC-6 evaluation using the latest version of SRI's FASTUS system as mentioned in this paper, which is a cascaded finite state transducers, each providing an additional level of analysis of the input and merging of the final results.

TL;DR: In this paper, an apparatus for assisting a user in the execution of a task, where the task includes one or more workflows required to accomplish a goal defined by the user, includes a task learner for creating new workflows from user demonstrations, a workflow tracker for identifying and tracking the progress of a current workflow, a task assistance processor coupled with the workflow tracker, and a task executor coupled to the task assist processor, for manipulating an application on the machine used by user to carry out the suggestion.

TL;DR: It is shown how the ability to attend to another agent, to take advice about the environment, and to carry out assigned tasks are integrated in the Saphira architecture using the concepts of coordination of behaviour, coherence of modelling, and communication with other agents.

TL;DR: An intelligent personal assistant that has been developed to aid a busy knowledge worker in managing time commitments and performing tasks and is highly user centric in its support for human needs, responsiveness to human inputs, and adaptivity to user working style and preferences.