Christopher Dean Brigham
Apple Inc.
24 Papers
4.4K Citations
Christopher Dean Brigham is an academic researcher from Apple Inc.. The author has contributed to research in topics: Natural language & Object model. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 24 publications.
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Intelligent Automated Assistant
Thomas R. Gruber,Adam Cheyer,Dag Kittlaus,Didier Rene Guzzoni,Christopher Dean Brigham,Richard Donald Giuli,Marcello Bastea-Forte,Harry J. Saddler +7 more
- 11 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this article, an intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions.
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Using context information to facilitate processing of commands in a virtual assistant
Thomas R. Gruber,Christopher Dean Brigham,Daniel S. Keen,Gregory Novick,Phipps Benjamin S +4 more
- 28 Sep 2012
TL;DR: In this article, a virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user, which helps to clarify the user's intent and reduce the number of candidate interpretations of user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input.
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Intent deduction based on previous user interactions with voice assistant
Adam Cheyer,Didier Rene Guzzoni,Thomas R. Gruber,Christopher Dean Brigham +3 more
- 21 Dec 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, a text string is obtained from a speech input received from a user and information is derived from a communication event that occurred at the electronic device prior to receipt of the speech input.
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Prioritizing selection criteria by automated assistant
Thomas R. Gruber,Adam Cheyer,Didier Rene Guzzoni,Christopher Dean Brigham,Harry J. Saddler +4 more
- 11 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this article, an intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions.
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Active input elicitation by intelligent automated assistant
Thomas R. Gruber,Adam Cheyer,Didier Rene Guzzoni,Christopher Dean Brigham,Richard Donald Giuli,Marcello Bastea-Forte,Harry J. Saddler +6 more
- 21 Dec 2012
TL;DR: In this article, a user request is received through a conversation interface of the intelligent automated assistant, the user request including at least a speech input received from a user, and feedback is provided to the user through the conversation interface, where the feedback presents a paraphrase of user request and elicits additional input from the user to specify one or more parameters associated with a particular candidate domain.
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