Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive a verbal command to active a device with an unknown label, derive a probable device and a label for the probable device, activate the probable device, determine that the activated probable device is the same device to be activated by the verbal command, and store the label and a description for the device. In some examples, the label is associated with the description.

Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive a verbal command to active a device with an unknown label, derive a probable device and a label for the probable device, activate the probable device, determine that the activated probable device is the same device to be activated by the verbal command, and store the label and a description for the device. In some examples, the label is associated with the description.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems, methods, and devices for providing help to a user through an output modality. Embodiments include an analysis logic implemented at least partially in hardware to receive an indication to provide help or other information to the user; identify an availability of one or more output modalities for providing the help; and determine an output modality for providing the help based on the availability of the one or more output modalities. Embodiments also include a dialog system implemented at least partially in hardware to process the request for help; and provide a dialog message in response to the request for help, the dialog message provided on the determined output modality. Some embodiments also include a sensor input for receiving sensory information, wherein the analysis logic identifies the output modality based, at least in part, on the sensory information.

Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes crawler logic, indexer logic, natural language understanding (NLU) parser logic and a content data store. The crawler logic is to retrieve content. The indexer logic is to extract at least one of a sentence and/or a phrase and to identify a key term and a content element location identifier. The natural language understanding (NLU) parser logic is to classify the sentence and/or phrase based, at least in part, on semantic information and/or based, at least in part, on syntactic information. At least one of the indexer logic and/or the NLU parser logic is to store a content data record including a key term identifier, at least one of a semantic classification identifier and/or a syntactic classification identifier and the content element location identifier to the content data store.