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Fetiye Karabay

David Claux

Saliha Azzam

Nicholas Caldwell

Benjamin Edward Childs

Ahmed Hassan Mohamed

Guihong Cao

A user is writing an email or other message. The message is inspected for a predetermined word and for at least one of: a predetermined phrase or a template match. A score is generated if the predetermined phrase or the template match is detected. A suggestion is provided to a user that the message may need an attachment if the predetermined word is detected or if the score is greater than a predetermined score. The inspection may begin when the user begins creating the message, indicates that the message should be sent, or at some point in between. The user may provide feedback that the suggestion is accepted or that the suggestion is rejected.

Forgotten attachment detection

Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media are provided for generating natural language outputs. Sets of triples may be used to map voice queries and answers to sentence structures that may be used as an output answer to the voice query. Sentence structures are only appropriate with certain sets of triples. One or more constraints may be associated with the set of triples to make sure sentence structures are only applied in correct situations. In order to be a valid sentence structure, each constraint associated therewith must be satisfied. If each constraint is satisfied, the sentence structure is valid and may be used as the format for an output answer. If each constraint is not satisfied, additional sentence structures associated with the set of triples may be evaluated until a valid sentence structure is identified. If no sentence structure is valid, no output is generated.

Generating natural language outputs

A user is writing an email or other message. A text processing layer prepares the message for analysis and performs some initial analysis and preparation such as a sentence separator, a 'tokenizer', a 'unique body' identification, and/or possibly other filtering or analysis routines. An analytics layer analyzes the message using a &#x201c;regular expressions&#x201d; analysis, a statistical natural language processing analysis, and/or a template matching analysis. If an attachment is indicated, a suggestion to add an attachment is provided to the user. The analysis may begin when the user begins creating the message, indicates that the message should be sent, or at some point in between. The user may provide feedback that the suggestion is accepted or that the suggestion is rejected.

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