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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Easier Searching in KDE
From:       Dik Takken <D.H.J.Takken () phys ! uu ! nl>
Date:       2004-06-04 10:36:22
Message-ID: Pine.OSF.4.60.0406041233230.164374 () ruunat ! phys ! uu ! nl
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Bryce Corkins wrote:

> I really like the sound of this idea, except that instead of having a
> datafile full of questions, we might look for a way to have the computer
> recognize certain words and concepts instead of exact phrases. For example, a
> user could type,
> "How do I send an email"
> but they could also type
> "How can I compose an email?"
> "How should I send emails?"
> "What program should I use for email?"
> 
> I think that by having the computer recognize the word 'Email', and then give
> it's response, we could greatly reduce the size of a needed datafile, and
> only lose a little accuracy.

That is exactly the problem that ALICE solves. It's called Artificial 
Intelligence :)

Note that the intelligence strongly depends on the knowledge database, so 
it's definitely not a 'Just plug in an AI program and we're done' 
solution.

Dik

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