FIRE: The Friendly Information Retrieval Engine

FIRE FIRE is a multimodal interface for information retrieval deployed in the Intelligent Room at the MIT AI Lab. FIRE extracts all the category terms related to the search query and uses entropy to generate questions that would quickly allow the user to disambiguate her query and arrive at a small set of relevant documents. FIRE presents information over several large displays in the Intelligent Room and supports both speech and gesture input for more natural interaction.

Krzysztof Gajos and Ajay Kulkarni. FIRE: An Information Retrieval Interface For Intelligent Environments. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Information Presentation and Natural Multimodal Dialogue IPNMD 2001, Verona, Italy, December 2001.