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The Understanding Web: Natural Language Technologies and Internet Agents

Learn about iSilk Technology, a spin-off from HKUST research labs, specializing in Natural Language Processing and Internet Agent technologies. Discover their sample applications and expertise in NLP web agents, browser agents, and more.

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The Understanding Web: Natural Language Technologies and Internet Agents

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  1. The Understanding Web:Natural Language Technologies and Internet Agents Dr. Dekai Wu CEO, iSilk

  2. Technology Origins Spun out from HKUST research labs (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) - Natural Language Processing technology (HKUST Human Language Technology Center) - Internet Agent technology (HKUST Cyberspace Center) We have deployed our statistical NLP technology for a broad range of web agents…

  3. Sample Applications & ExpertiseNLP Web Agents • Information seeking agents • Chatterbots • Question answering agents • Voice browsing agents • Linguistic machine-learning agents • Persistent browser agents

  4. Persistent Browser Agents • Heavyweight alternatives • Java • Downloaded components • Lightweight alternatives • EcmaScript • Problem: lacks remote function calls • iSilk WebCaller™ • Distributed object platform • Clean, uniform communication between heterogeneous objects • EcmaScript, Java, C++ • Allows persistent browser agents without Java or downloaded components

  5. Example Application: Hongkong.com Powered by iSilkPersistent Translation Browsing Agent

  6. Example Application: Hongkong.com Powered by iSilkPersistent Translation Browsing Agent

  7. Agent Architecture

  8. Enablers for NLP Web Agents:Key Web Standards • Procedural languages • EcmaScript • Java • Declarative representations • XML • RDF • “Semantic Web” • What’s missing…?

  9. Future Directions Thank you.

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