From kde-pim  Tue Dec 02 17:18:20 2008
From: Frank Osterfeld <frank.osterfeld () gmx ! de>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:18:20 +0000
To: kde-pim
Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] A "personal assistant" in Kmail (and elsewhere)?
Message-Id: <200812021818.21091.frank.osterfeld () gmx ! de>
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On Sunday 30 November 2008 19:16:50 Ingo Klöcker wrote:

> I think you are reading too much in what KMail can do. There's no magic
> behind this feature. KMail simply looks for the words "attached"
> and "attachment" (or whatever words KMail is asked to look for in its
> configuration) in the message you are about to send and, in case one of
> those words is found, checks whether there's an attachment.
>
> KMail's ability has (almost) nothing to do with natural language
> understanding which is what your idea has at its core.
>
> What you propose sounds like a very interesting research topic. KDE
> Research (http://techbase.kde.org/Research) might be the right address
> for this. They might have some ideas how to find a young researcher in
> the field of Natural Language Processing who might be interested in
> writing his thesis about this.

For those interested, have a look at Apple Mail. It has "data detectors", e.g. 
for extracting ical events (appointments) from natural text. I haven't tried 
it myself, but I've been told it works quite well. 

Frank



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