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#nwnlp16 Aside: this hashtag is the #nlproc style…

#nwnlp16 Aside: this hashtag is the #nlproc style of #NLP — & the social manipulation form of NLP can f right off. Resolve *that* anaphor!

@emilymbender #nwnlp16 a full employment act for #NLProc students

Making ASR+NLU to 3rd party developers w/o NLP expertise: quite the difficult meta-problem for Alexa. #nwnlp16

@karenkincy most interesting to me: composable & hierarchical intents #nwnlp16

@rctatman #nwnlp16 relates to the He&c paper this morning about NL construction of wh-question for propbank

Dreyer: third party functionality extension using Alexa Skills Kit, developer provides example utterances, no NLP knowledge needed #nwnlp16

#nwnlp16 Alexa has nifty NLU: – multiple domain models > rerankers > intents all combined to one model. Can combine FST & statistical models

#nwnlp16 Alexa has nifty ASR research directions: – LM p13n to current user ID – context (time, location, prev utterances) – 3party device

#nwnlp16 Alexa has nifty problems in ASR pron guessing, speaker adaptation, endpointing, open domain PPL

#nwnlp16 Alexa has nifty problems in signal processing and ASR (play music and self-cancel for ASR)