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DOI :10.26650/acin.454522   IUP :10.26650/acin.454522    Full Text (PDF)

Overview of Intelligent Personal Assistants

Erdem Balcı

With the latest technological advances, intelligent personal assistants are becoming part of our daily lives. In the future, with improvements in artificial intelligence techniques, it is foreseen that individuals’ life management will be greatly assisted by intelligent personal assistants. Today, it seems that intelligent personal assistants have not yet reached their full potential. For more efficient use, more technical developments are needed, especially in terms of natural language processing. In order to that, areas which need improvement must be determined based on which challenges are faced. In order to develop more efficient solutions for problems, an initial fundamental evaluation is necessary. In this work, features of intelligent personal assistants are examined and existing applications are referred to. For a better understanding of what features an intelligent personal assistant must contain, a literature review was completed. In-use features which should be improved in the future, challenges challenges which need to be overcome, areas which could be made more efficient, and how to increase usage are determined. 

DOI :10.26650/acin.454522   IUP :10.26650/acin.454522    Full Text (PDF)

Akıllı Kişisel Asistanlara Genel Bakış

Erdem Balcı

Teknolojik gelişmelerle birlikte, akıllı kişisel asistanların günlük yaşantımızda kullanımı önem kazandı. Gelecekte, yapay zekada tekniklerindeki gelişmelerle birlikte hayat yönetiminin akıllı kişisel asistanlar tarafından asiste edileceği öngörülüyor. Günümüzde hala akıllı kişisel asistanların tam potansiyeline ulaştığını söylemek mümkün değildir. Daha etkin bir kullanım için daha fazla tekniksel gelişmeye ihtiyaç duyuluyor, özellikle doğal dil işleme alanında. Bu nedenle, geliştirilmesi gereken konular karşılaşılan zorluklar bazında tespit edilmelidir. Sorunlara daha etkin çözümler üretmek için, öncelikle bir genel değerlendirme yapılmalıdır. Bu çalışmada, akıllı kişisel asistanların özellikleri incelendi ve varolan uygulamalara değinildi. Akıllı kişisel asistanların hangi özellikleri içermesi gerektiğini daha iyi anlamak için literatür taraması yapıldı. Kullanılan ve geliştirilmesi gereken özellikler gösterildi. Aşılması gereken zorluklar ve daha etkin ve yaygın bir kullanım için gerekli özellikler belirlendi. 


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