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TL;DR: The evaluation of a natural language dialog based navigation system (HappyAssistant) that helps users access e-commerce sites to find relevant information about products and services shows that users prefer the natural language enabled navigation two to one over the menu driven navigation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a system architecture, components and a searching technique for an unstructured information management system (UIMS), which is provided as middleware for the effective management and interchange of unstructuring information over a wide array of information sources.

TL;DR: In this article, decoding ambiguities are identified and at least partially resolved intermediate to the language decoding procedures to reduce the subsequent number of final decoding alternatives, where the user is questioned about identified decoding ambiguity as they are being decoded.

TL;DR: In this paper, a volume control system and a method for regulating the output volume of a headset in order to protect the hearing ability of a user is presented, which includes a volume sensor/controller for monitoring the volume output of the headset by adjusting the volume to be within a predetermined threshold.

TL;DR: In this article, a system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer is presented, and a confidence score or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score.