A Mobile Assistant for Turkish

Abstract

In this paper we present a design and animplementation of a mobile assistant applicationthat understands and meets users' requests inTurkish language. The application is able tounderstand requests for a set of phone operationssuch as calling a contact or sending an email andrequests for a set of information services such asmap, weather, and traffic. The understanding ofuser queries relies on existing research onnatural language processing for Turkish and ahybrid approach of rule-based and statisticalclassification methods. Our performance testsrevealed high accuracy results for the operationsthat our application supports.