Natural Language Processing Services for the Android Mobile Platform

Smart Phones are fast becoming ever-present personal assistants – personal assistants

which become more useful and productive with the inclusion of Natural Language Processing

power. For many users, smart phones have become their go-to-device for industry news

feeds, checking email and scheduling their agenda.

The sheer quantity of text which is read on these devices, and the number of screen-taps

needed to get things done, can be reduced by applying existing Natural Language

Processing pipelines such as automatic summarization to news feeds, email or attachments.

Summarized text can also be consumed in an eyes-free manner using the smart phone’s

Text To Speech capabilities. Dates, locations and people can be automatically detected using

Named Entity Recognition and integrated in the creation of new events in a user’s agenda.

iLanguage Lab is a Montreal start-up which seeks to put Natural Language Processing (NLP)

in the pockets of consumers, by combining Software Engineering with Field Linguistics to

build Open Source language-independent Natural Language Processing and….

Faculty Supervisor:

Rene Witte

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Partner:

Ilanguage Lab

Discipline:

Computer science

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University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

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