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Re: rememberance agents

Paul,

I think this is a very interesting idea, and would like to start a discussion (with your permission, of course) on this subject on the Mining Co. Software Agents site (http://softwareagents.miningco.com).
Is this OK with you?

Greetings,

Denis Susac
TMC Software Agents Guide
http://softwareagents.miningco.com

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> From: R. Paul McCarty <>
> To: 
> Subject: rememberance agents 
> Date: 1998. travanj 26 15:07
> 
> 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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