Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “In recent years, the amount and use of interact ive programs has risen considerably. In tandem with this rise comes the need to have human-like interactions and/or create applications that provide guidance an d options for users. Additionally, in order to fulfill user-interaction requirem ents, these applications need to be helpful, and thus respond intelligently by p roviding relevant responses to user inputs, whether these inputs are received vi a text, audio, or video input.”