A Deep Learning-Based Chinese Semantic Parser for the Almond Virtual Assistant.

Almond is an extendible open-source virtual assistant designed to help people access Internet services and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. Both are referred to as skills here. Service providers can easily enable their devices for Almond by defining proper APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for ThingTalk in Thingpedia.

Diameter-dependent surface photovoltage and surface state density in single semiconductor nanowires.

Based on single-nanowire surface photovoltage measurements and finite-element electrostatic simulations, we determine the surface state density, N(s), in individual n-type ZnO nanowires as a function of nanowire diameter. In general, N(s) increases as the diameter decreases. This identifies an important origin of the recently reported diameter dependence of the surface recombination velocity, which has been commonly considered to be independent of the diameter.