Online Product Reviews and Their Impact on Third Party Sellers Using Natural Language Processing

How Does the Use of Trademarks by Third-Party Sellers Affect Online Search?

Firms that sell via a direct channel and via indirect channels have to decide whether to allow third-party sellers to use the trademarked brand name of the product in their advertising. This question has been particularly controversial for advertising on search engines. In June 2009, Google started allowing any third-party reseller for a product to use a trademark, such as ‘Doubletree,’ in the ...

NLify: Third-Party Programming Support for Spoken Natural Language Interfaces

This paper presents the design and implementation of a programming system that enables third-party developers to add spoken natural language (SNL) interfaces to mobile applications. Existing systems either restrict SNL capabilities to first-party applications or limit developer-defined spoken interactions to keyphrases rather than broad natural language. An examination of expert workflow reveal...

Book Reviews: Computer Processing of Natural Language

This is a book about linguistic analysis involving a pair of issues that complement each other. First, there is an emphasis on representations: on grammars for describing and generating the sentences that make up a given language. Second, there is an emphasis on processing and computation: on demonstrating that the grammar for a language has important implications for how it can be processed. M...

How Does the Use of Trademarks by Third-Party Sellers

Firms that sell via a direct channel and via indirect channels have to decide whether to allow third-party sellers to use the trademarked brand name of the product in their advertising. This question has been particularly controversial for advertising on search engines. In June 2009, Google started allowing any third-party reseller for a product to use a trademark, such as ‘Doubletree,’ in the ...

IJCNLP 2008 Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing