Jarvis is a personal assistant that uses natural language processing and a database of pre-programmed functionality to respond to user requests. Jarvis is driven by a Java-based backend that performs core operations, and can be used through various interfaces.
Jarvis is named after Tony Stark's automated assistant in the Ironman_ series.
The following are on my list of things to implement:
- Console
- run in background
- incorporate Jarvis into the login and logout functions
- have Jarvis warn if any of the directories are getting full (df -h)
- more importantly: make it possible to tell Jarvis to shut up
- Centralization
- always available online
- all clients interact through a REST interface with a single instance
- Engine
- bring in the NLP software from http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/index.shtml
- allow basic commands to be parsed and responded to
- consider using data from Freebase Quad Dump (http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/2052645406658757)
- voice interface
- consider bringing in soundbites from http://www.wavsource.com/movies/iron_man.htm
The initial parsing engine will be simple. In fact, the first version will be pretty much just a command-line abstraction layer that reduces the need to type commands exactly.
The operations will be:
- Determine the action
- Determine the object
- Look through the database of available operations, and determine if any of them match the action and the object
- action: "open", "close", "delete"
Here are some examples of anticipated behavior:
> jarvis
Yes sir?