Sher.pa

Sher.pa is an intelligent personal assistant that responds to voice and text. Sher.pa is available as an application for Android.

Profile

The company was founded in January 2012 in Bilbao, Spain by Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria and has an extensive background in natural language processing and semantics. Additional offices have opened in Redwood City, California.

Disambiguation Engine

Sherpa technology is different from other systems for three key reasons — its deep and comprehensive knowledge of the languages which it analyzes, its emphasis on language-independent conceptual representations of the results of the analysis, and finally, the Sherpa analysis process, which integrates five levels of linguistically motivated processing to arrive at an unambiguous, language-independent representation of the user’s intent.

Multiknowledge System

MultiKnowledge System is a computational knowledge engine or answer engine developed by Sherpa and powered by multiple proprietary and non-proprietary sources of information resulting in accurate query results. It is an exclusive service that answers Natural Language queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might.

Partners

Sherpa is integrated with services such as PayPal for online money transfers; Google Maps and Yelp for places information; Yahoo Finance for stock information; Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin for Social Netwoking; Bing, Yahoo, and Google for web search; among others.

Availability

Sherpa was launched in the 1st of October in 2012, first as a Beta application available on Android´s Google Play in the Spain, 3 months later was launched in Latin America becoming the number 1 Virtual Personal Assistant for android in Spanish speaking world. Sherpa is already available in Spain, Latin America and the US.

See also

• Siri
• S Voice by Samsung Electronics
• Google Now

References

Links:

• CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AbpHwzSkndE#!
• PayPal: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2012/10/sherpa-lets-you-send-money-via-paypal-with-just-the-sound-of-your-voice/
• PCWorld (The Assistant that we all love to have): http://www.pcworldenespanol.com/201212047666/noticias/internet/sherpa-el-asistente-virtual-que-todos-quisieramos-tener.html
• Expansión: http://www.expansion.com/agencia/europa_press/2012/12/19/20121219113631.html
• El País: List of the 100 most relevant people from Spain and Latin America: http://www.elpais.com/especial/protagonistas/
• Gartner: http://www.gartner.com/id=2134317

External links

• CNET Review: Sherpa is an impressive digital assistant for Android, despite its 'beta' status http://reviews.cnet.com/software/sherpa-beta-virtual-assistant/4505-3513_7-35667251.html
• USA Today: Sherpa for Android aims high on voice search http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2013/04/17/sherpa-virtual-voice-assistant-review/2087977/
• Bloombergs Business Week: Siri Challenger Sherpa Learns English, Arrives in the U.S http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/siri-challenger-sherpa-learns-english-arrives-in-the-u-dot-s-dot
• CNET: Move over Siri, Sherpa's in town http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57579921-94/move-over-siri-sherpas-in-town/
• TechCrunch: Sherpa, The Top Spanish-Speaking Personal Assistant App, Comes To The U.S. For Android [TCTV] http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/17/sherpa-the-top-spanish-speaking-personal-assistant-app-comes-to-the-u-s-for-android-tctv/
• Gizmodo: Sherpa, the Lovechild of Siri and Google Now http://gizmodo.com/5994869/sherpa-the-lovechild-of-siri-and-google-now
• GigaOM: Spain’s Siri-challenger Sherpa learns English, arrives in the U.S. http://gigaom.com/2013/04/17/spains-siri-challenger-sherpa-learns-english-arrives-in-the-u-s/
• Ubergizmo: Sherpa Personal Assistant App for Android http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/04/sherpa/
• PC Mag: Siri Has New Challenger With Spain´s Sherpa http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417872,00.asp
• Lifehaker: Sherpa Brings Natural Language Voice Commands to Android http://lifehacker.com/sherpa-brings-natural-language-voice-commmands-to-andro-474945699
• VentureBeat: Startups on ‘mobile frontier’ let you control computers with your eyes, make virtual friends, explore space http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/17/startups-on-mobile-frontier-let-you-control-computers-with-your-eyes-make-virtual-friends-explore-space/#8xh2oZYVCEt4qqxH.99
• The PayPal Blog: Sherpa – the only transactional virtual assistant – now available in the US https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2013/04/sherpa-%E2%80%93-the-only-transactional-virtual-assistant-%E2%80%93-now-available-in-the-us/
• Android Community Sherpa Virtual Assistant now available for US-based Android users http://androidcommunity.com/sherpa-virtual-assistant-now-available-for-us-based-android-users-20130417/
• AndroidTapp: Sherpa Beta Virtual Assistant – try this cool new Voice Assistant http://www.androidtapp.com/sherpa-beta-virtual-assistant-try-this-cool-new-voice-assistant/
• MIT Technology Review: Sherpa avanza para consolidarse como alternativa móvil a Google http://www.technologyreview.es/read_article.aspx?id=42709