North Side Inc. is developing software to support conversation in unrestricted English between people and machines. We are committed to supporting natural, unrestricted English interaction in real-time. These man-machine conversations will normally utilize a large body of facts and world knowledge.

 

Applications

The first application of our technology will be in video games. We are hard at work on a title that will feature intelligent characters (remember HAL or Commander Data). We believe that the addition of conversation to video games will revolutionize gameplay, taking it to a new level of immersiveness. Natural language conversation makes video games more accessible. English-based dialogue as the key interface paradigm opens the game to everybody, irrespective of sex and age. The game will appeal to people of varied cultures, who either know English or want to learn it.

 

The ability of a machine to understand a human and his objectives and to formulate a sensible answer has applications in areas such as e-commerce, customer support, and training. We plan to pursue various applications of our technology in the future through partnerships.

 

Research & Development

We develop software that leverages common-sense knowledge to enable interactive dialogue about large knowledge bases. Our focus areas include:

o    Parsing
o    Logic-based Representation of Language
o    Ontological Engineering
o    Reasoning
o    Dialogue Management and Natual Language Generation

The company also develops real-time 3D graphics technology that is integrated with our language technology.

 

Research Team

The members of our research team have advanced degrees in Computational Linguistics and Computer Science.

Founder Background

 

Hiring

We have positions open in:

o    Game programming and 3D graphics
o    Game Testing
o    Automated knowledge acquisition
o    Lexical resource integration

Please apply at hiring@northsideinc.com

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