Our research assistant, Matthias Yoo, has recently been exploring Natural Language Processing as a project that would interface with a Smart Desk concept we are working on.

Working with Python, he has been working on using Machine learning to train the system to recognize human names, english and international, compared to extraneous data. He is also exploring sentiment analysis there the computer could look at data such as movie reviews to deduce if a movie was ‘good’ or ‘bad’ based on its review and the frequency of certain words used in the review.

As this project is in early stages, we anticipate that it will develop into a conversational user interface that could enhance a desk user’s experience.