>As was discussed on the wear-hard list, there appear to be a couple of >commercial products out there that do just what I was thinking of (i.e. >a text understanding agent that parses english text and stores the >relations in a database which can be recalled when you ask questions). > >I tried the ThoughtTreasure talk >(http://www.signiform.com/tt/htm/talk.htm) package on linux, and at >first it was really impressive, and then I asked a few odd question >(other than "what is your name?", etc.) and it sat processing the 1MB >database that came with it for up to a minute and then came back with >responses that made no sense at all. It was also frustrating that when >I asked a question it couldn't answer it didn't say so (but this is more >of a user interface issue). It may be that the program has some bugs >yet, or that it didn't complile properly on linux. In any event, I'm not >holding my breath because this package is much bigger than I can work >with on my small 486 wearable and requires too much memory as it is. I had similar experience with TT on Windows95. Same problems, same results, but on the faster machine (Pentium MMX 233 with 64MB RAM). I didn't compile it, just tried the executable from their Web site. Sure, it is much bigger than what you would consider an average wearable... >I did some more work with my simple perl rememberance agent, and added >the ability to forget things. With a little work I may actually get >this embedded in a unix shell and it will always be available to answer >my questions and remind me of things I need to do. > >What is your interest in these sorts of agents? is this for a wearable >computer? or is your interest in some sort of remembarance agent for >other applications? > >BTW, I apologize for not posting on the software agents site, but it >seemed a little awkward to repond to this message there. Or would you >like me to repost my message from wear-hard on this list and then we >could discuss what I was thinking about? I am interested in all sorts of software agents... Rememberance agents are very high on my "to do" list, as I would like to implement something similar. Maybe you can repost the message on my Bulletin Board (many people do not read the wear-hard list), and I could point at it from my home page. Perhaps we can start some kind of programming project on the Web... Take care, Denis Susac TMC Software Agents http://softwareagents.miningco.com
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