chat-transcript_20100225d.txt anonymous morphed into Jack Ring 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 . anonymous1 morphed into Jim Disbrow anonymous morphed into h. 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 TejasLagvankar PeterYim: thansk, Joel ... anonymous morphed into Jim Disbrow anonymous morphed into Geroge Terre anonymous morphed into JoelBender anonymous morphed into Tom Tom morphed into Tom and Adam anonymous: Richard Christian Brown (UNF) anonymous morphed into Richard Christian Brown Richard Christian Brown morphed into Christian anonymous1 morphed into Ellie Trevarthen (NASA/JPL) TejasLagvankar morphed into TejasLagvankar (UMBC) anonymous morphed into TJ anonymous morphed into michael michael: Is there a limit to the web ex..just got an error saying only 15 people allowed in webex Geroge Terre morphed into Geroge anonymous morphed into John McGrath michael: I got a network error for the vnc2 ArturoSanchez: There is a limit of 15 connections on the Web-Ex site ... Geroge morphed into George ArturoSanchez: Slide 7 ArturoSanchez: Question for presenters: are you developing an extensible architecture to support changes organically? ArturoSanchez: Slide 9 ArturoSanchez: Question: does Siri know/learn about personal preferences? anonymous morphed into ElizabethFlorescu 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? ArturoSanchez: slide 13 Ellie Trevarthen (NASA/JPL): How is the speech interface affected by background noise -- i.e. if one is using Siri in a crowded place, vehicle, etc.? Christian: Slide 15 ArturoSanchez: 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? Christian: Can we take a break to answer some questions? 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? ArturoSanchez: Oh... Java anonymous1 morphed into Cecil Lynch ArturoSanchez: HAL PeterYim1: @Christian - we'll be doing Q&A after the presentation and demo ... try using this chat room to type our your question(s) first, if you please PeterYim1: type _out_ ... Christian: *noted 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! Christian: @Adam & Tom - How have you leveraged available computing power and resources to promote real-time processing and rendering of results? Christian: Right on! Christian: What portions of processing are done on the device? Christian: 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" Christian: nice ty JoelBender: (no iPod Touch support , I'll try this on my iPhone later ) anonymous2 morphed into drulozas ArturoSanchez: Question: what main security concerns did you identify while developing the application and how did you address them? Brand Niemann: I have used this for several weeks now and it has worked very well. Thanks, Brand Christian lowered your hand TejasLagvankar (UMBC): I'm waiting for the Android App ! ArturoSanchez: "michael lowered your hand"--what does this mean?? Gary Berg-Cross: 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. Tom and Adam: For other devices, please stay tuned... EvanWallace: The queue feature seems to time out PeterYim: please raise you hands again (sorry!) EvanWallace: Thanks. I want this. michael: what is the business model? Christian: gone are the days of viral marketing ... well so to speak Ali Hashemi: thanks all ArturoSanchez: Great session! Tom and Adam: Thanks PeterYim: Thanks everyone! PeterYim: -- session ended 12:12pm PST -- 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.