As previously announced, the new release of Almond is here.
Release notes
- ThingTalk was extended to support multiple statements. This is an experimental feature, it is not yet complete, and might change in the future.
- The natural language backend of Genie was switched to use the decanlp library. This brings in a new model, called Multi-Task Question Answering Network, and increases accuracy by about 5% over the previous model.
Module versions
This release comprises the following libraries:
- thingtalk: 1.6.0
- thingpedia: 2.3.4
- thingpedia-client: 0.2.2
- thingengine-core: 1.4.0
- almond-dialog-agent: 1.3.1
- almond-cloud: 1.4.0
- genie-toolkit: 0.2.0
Please refer to the HISTORY
file on GitHub for details of what changed in each library.
Contributors
In addition to the Almond team, this releases features a preview of Chinese language support, contributed by Elvis Lin and Johnny Hsu, of National Taiwan University.