SBIR Phase I: Implementation of an Internet-Based Natural Language Query System

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目解决了在各种公共、私人和商业环境中提高学生学习过程生产力的广泛需求。使用互联网。speaktomi公司构思、开发并演示了一项创新：自然语言查询系统（NLQS）。本系统是一个基于internet的智能查询系统，它结合了分布式语音识别和自然语言理解技术。Speaktomi在2000年使用英语演示并测试了NLQS原型系统，2001年5月使用日语。speaktomi NLQS的核心技术是一组专有软件组件，由speaktomi， LLC使用speaktomi的架构和方法（已申请专利）集成，支持多种语言，无需演讲者培训。本研究的目标是提高NLQS系统的性能，使其能够定义包含NLQS的商业产品的规格。具体来说，我们将改进系统的准确性、延迟、将系统移植到PDA以及识别客户机-服务器瓶颈。应用范围涵盖K3-16及以上的学习等级，在广泛的商业和军事训练计划中，当与翻译引擎结合使用时，NLQS技术可以形成支持跨多种语言的交互式查询和实时协作的系统基础。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project addresses the widespread need to improve the productivity of the student learning process in a wide variety of public, private and commercial environments. Using the Internet. speaktomi, LLC. has conceived, developed, and, demonstrated an innovation: a natural language query system (NLQS). This system is an Internet-based intelligent query system that combines distributed speech recognition and natural language understanding technologies. Speaktomi demonstrated and tested a NLQS prototype system using English in 2000 and Japanese in May 2001. The core technology of speaktomi's NLQS is a set of proprietary software components, integrated by speaktomi, LLC., using speaktomi's architectures and approaches (patents applied for) which support several languages and require no speaker training. The objectives of this research are to advance the performance of the NLQS system to the point of being able to define the specifications for a commercial product embodying NLQS. Specifically we will improve the system accuracy, latency, port the system to a PDA and identify client-server bottlenecks. The applications span learning grades K3-16 and above, in a broad array of commercial and military training programs, and when in combination with a translation engine, the NLQS technology can form a basis for systems that support interactive queries and real time collaboration across several languages.