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rememberance agents

From: "R. Paul McCarty" <>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 09:07:25 -0400 (EDT)

Since I can't afford to add wireless networking to my wearable yet, I've
been working on a simple rememberance agent. Basically, I want a plain
text interface to a database (or a NLP interface to an expert system) but
since it has to run on my modest 486, it can't contain things like neural
nets or complex learning algorithms, or text understanding (or maybe it
could, but none of the usual LISP implementations).

Does anyone know if something like this exists? Has anyone tried to write
something like this? I have a very simple perl script that I wrote that
learns to associate words based on statements I make, for example I can
tell it:

>my birthday is September 16.

and then when I ask:

>when is my birthday?
September 16.

It's like talking to a five year old, but its pretty neat. I also want to
be able to give it text files to read and learn, but it needs some extra
functionality to do this, like recognizing pronoun references, and being
able to parse more complex statements, etc.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks.
-Paul

R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator /  / x52059
317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
Computers don't make mistakes;what they do,they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH

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