Intelligent Conversational Research Assistant

About this technology

Overview

NASA Ames has developed a community-driven, context-aware intelligent research assistant system (MATA - Sanskrit name for the Earth) which is capable of engaging with users in a conversational manner using natural language dialogue, invoking external community-provided web services to obtain information or to perform actions, and vocalizes the responsive action back to the user. This novel, patented technology is an intelligent, virtual, personalized conversational research assistant system. Specifically designed for geospatial queries of Earth science data, this software application provides conversational computing, not just a conversational assistant. It is able to run on a personal computer or a mobile phone that facilitates user interaction with the system. This technology allows users to add new capabilities and new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) so that it can be applied to a wide variety of applications.