Amazon Trains Alexa on GPUs to Better Handle Complex Queries

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/amazon-trains-alexa-on-gpus-to-better-handle-complex-queries/

To improve how natural language processing (NLP) systems such as Alexa handle complex requests, Amazon researchers, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, developed a deep learning-based, sequence-to-sequence model that can better handle simple and complex queries. “Virtual assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant often rely on a semantic parsing…