chat-transcript_20100225e_edited.txt PeterYim: . Welcome to the Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation - Thu 2010.02.25 * Invited Speakers: Mr. AdamCheyer & Dr. TomGruber (Siri, Inc.) * Title: "Siri: An Ontology-driven Application for the Masses" Please refer to details on the session page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2010_02_25 . anonymous morphed into JackRing anonymous1 morphed into JimDisbrow anonymous morphed into Hasan Sayani anonymous morphed into JoelBender PeterYim: we are running a webex shared-screen session today (info just posted) ... please refresh your session page, and follow instructions at the top of that page - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2010_02_25 JoelBender: Peter, step 3 says "Enter the meeting password: ontology123" and it doesn't seem to need the password. anonymous morphed into Tejas Lagvankar PeterYim: thansk, Joel ... anonymous morphed into JimDisbrow anonymous morphed into Geroge Terre anonymous morphed into JoelBender anonymous morphed into Tom Tom morphed into TomGruber and AdamCheyer anonymous: Richard Christian Brown (UNF) anonymous morphed into Richard Christian Brown Richard Christian Brown morphed into Richard Christian Brown anonymous1 morphed into Ellie Trevarthen anonymous morphed into TJ anonymous morphed into michael anonymous morphed into John McGrath anonymous morphed into ElizabethFlorescu michael: Is there a limit to the web ex..just got an error saying only 15 people allowed in webex michael: I got a network error for the vnc2 ArturoSanchez: There is a limit of 15 connections on the Web-Ex site ... ArturoSanchez: Question for presenters: are you developing an extensible architecture to support changes organically? ArturoSanchez: Question: does Siri know/learn about personal preferences? ArturoSanchez: Question: what is the range of the context associated with the questions posed to Siri? Can Siri also learn about new contexts? ArturoSanchez: Question: if you ad a friend named "Siri" would Siri know it has to ask you who you are referring to? michael: How does the company intend to make money with this tool? Ellie Trevarthen: How is the speech interface affected by background noise -- i.e. if one is using Siri in a crowded place, vehicle, etc.? ArturoSanchez: Question: how is the ontology represented in Siri? Do you use your own inference engine? John McGrath: Question: I see the system uses NLP to understand term meaning and intent. Is there a query syntax standard for the various services or is their a custom interface require for each service? Or do they need to create an API to a Siri standard? ArturoSanchez: Question: "Find the best restaurant around according to Zagat and Martha Stewart" how would Siri handle this question? Richard Christian Brown: Can we take a break to answer some questions? PeterYim1: @Richard Christian Brown - we'll be doing Q&A after the presentation and demo ... try using this chat room to type out your question(s) first, if you please michael: CAn you please tell us the name of the tools they are using? are they home grown or commercial products? PeterYim: I am somewhat surprised Adam's voice worked on Tom's phone ... do you need to "train" the voice recognition? Richard Christian Brown: *noted ArturoSanchez: Oh... Java anonymous1 morphed into Cecil Lynch ArturoSanchez: HAL ArturoSanchez: On fire!! PeterYim: @Adam & Tom - how do you manage performance and scalability ... tell us something about that, please SeanBarker: When would we be able to try this out in the UK? ArturoSanchez: Pretty cool guys! Thank you for sharing your system with us! Richard Christian Brown: @Adam & Tom - How have you leveraged available computing power and resources to promote real-time processing and rendering of results? Richard Christian Brown: Right on! Richard Christian Brown: What portions of processing are done on the device? Richard Christian Brown: Or more specifically, do you utilize the device running the application (be it a MDA, PDA, notebook, etc...) to do naturally language processing and disambiguation? PeterYim: Tom: "Big Think, Small Screen" Richard Christian Brown: nice try JoelBender: (no iPod Touch support , I'll try this on my iPhone later ) anonymous2 morphed into BernardUlozas ArturoSanchez: Question: what main security concerns did you identify while developing the application and how did you address them? BrandNiemann: I have used this for several weeks now and it has worked very well. Thanks, Brand Tejas Lagvankar: I'm waiting for the Android App ! GaryBergCross: Do you think that it will difficult to maintain your preferences for various services as they change or time? Say Yelp is preferred for reviews but then adds better info for reservations and some other service starts to have better reviews. TomGruber and AdamCheyer: For other devices, please stay tuned... EvanWallace: Thanks. I want this. michael: what is the business model? Richard Christian Brown: gone are the days of viral marketing ... well so to speak John McGrath: Very informative. Most interested to understand how search engine platforms can best interface to the closud to support service providers like Siri. Seems a more robust dialog(vs query) interpretor stand will be required in the long run. Ali Hashemi: thanks all ArturoSanchez: Great session! TomGruber and AdamCheyer: Thanks PeterYim: Thanks everyone! PeterYim: -- session ended 12:12pm PST --