The talking (and listening) Gecko

Hi, as I mentioned in my first post, I need some samples of how people would give commands to their desktops in a natural language, for now just English. I guess it'll be easier if I could give some sort of a questionnaire. In it are a few desktop activities that one usually performs on a desktop, if you were to do instruct your computer to do these activities how would you formulate the sentence? You can take specific instances to create samples, for eg. for the first question you can prepare at least three sample commands, one for playing music by artist ("Coldplay" for instance), one for an album and one for a genre.

It'll be a most valued contribution, as it will help improve the strategy used in analyzing natural language commands. Please email your results to mohit.verma.in@gmail.com with subject "gsoc help" or post your samples as comments here.

Questionnaire:

1. You want to play music (you may mention the media player or not), based on artist, genre, album etc.

2. You want to install/upgrade a software.

3. You want to initiate an IM conversation with a friend (you may mention the protocol or not, for eg. yahoo chat).

4. You want to locate a file/folder in your home directory.

5. You want to find an application which does a particular task (probably mentioned in its description).

6. You want to browse a website (possibly present in the history or in bookmarks).

(If you feel there are other common desktop activities, then please mention them as well in the sample submitted).