on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:05:09PM +0100, Matthias Wieser (hias@sbox.tugraz.at) wrote: > Does anybody know of an auto answering system, that should work like the > following: > > you use a bit simplified language, and the system tries to answer it. if > it can not come up with a correct answer(you probably have to tell it: > no not that answer) It will add the question to queue of unanswered > questions. Ask Jeeves? Seriously. This is an area of much research and (some) success. I believe Ask Jeeves is probably one of the more successful and widely known instances of such a system. There's also tools such as the FAQOMATIC (sp?), referred to on the Debian website, similar types of tools have been around for a while. > This way a mailing list would have less trafic and often answered > question would just be automatically answered. > > has anybody set up something like that / knows if there is a free system > around. > Frankly, all such systems are largely limited by three constraints: - The intelligence of the user asking the question. - The richness of the solution database. - The intelligence of the automated response algorithm. The problem is nontrivial, and efficacy is largely limited. The suggestion to use Google is probably a best, low-cost, first approximation solution. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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