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Annie Y Bai

Julie Christa Seto

Chenguang Yang

Julianne Marie Emmons

James R Fullmer

Lin Ma

Erez Kikin Gil

Han-Yi Shaw

Ruth Kikin-Gil

Bernhard S J Kohlmeier

Maya Rodrig

Pradeep Chilakamarri

Matthew Evan Vogel

Darron Jack Stepanich

Om Krishna

Derek Snook

Lorrissa J Reyes

Constance Gwendolyn Duong

Jamie Yu

Kara Fong

Becky M Morley

Kristen M Saad

Venkateshwar Rao Thota

Derek V Snook

Bernhard SJ Kohlmeier

A computing device receives a trigger to surface commands. A possible set of commands is identified and broken into categories. A category is surfaced for user interaction.

Context-based command surfacing

A user input is detected that triggers a contextual command bar to be surfaced. A commanding context, in an application that the user has open, is identified and a set of commands to be surfaced in the contextual command bar is identified, based upon the context. The identified set of commands is surfaced on the contextual command bar for user interaction.

Contextual command bar

A computing device receives a voice command to perform an action within a document. An interpretation of the voice command is mapped to a set of commands. Disambiguation is automatically performed by conducting a user experience to receive additional information.

Intent driven command processing

Techniques and systems for facilitating contextual information lookup and navigation are presented. Contextually relevant information can be presented without requiring a user to switch context or craft a search query. From within an application in which a user may consume or create content, a user may indicate text for further exploration. The application can receive the indication of an initial text selection, determine the intended selection and provide contextual search results to the user. In some implementations, the initial selection and a selection context (that includes at least some of the text surrounding the initial selection) is sent to a contextual search service which provides the intended selection and contextual search results based on the initial selection and selection context. In other implementations, text may be suggested by the contextual search service for selection from within the application.

Contextual information lookup and navigation

A computing device receives voice command inputs from a user. The device obtains a language processing result based on the voice command input. The result includes an intent and a set of arguments. The device also obtains a variety of different types of contextual information. An action is identified based on the intent, the arguments, and the contextual information, and the device then suggests the action by displaying a user selectable input mechanism that can be actuated by the user to perform the action. The device can automatically perform the action as well.

Context-based actions

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