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Microsoft ''Bot'' will read and sum up the news for you
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If you love, as much as I do, to always be up to date with the latest rants and raves on several fields of knowledge, you already know that felling of despairing anxiety that translates as “So many things to read and so little time”.*
You also know that eventually, you'll retain only a small part of all the information you read.
So, how about a "bot" that would do all the dirty work for you and present you only with a very small resumed part, with the precise content you would like to know?
This is a brilliant and old concept that many have predicting as a winning technology, but very few have predicted when…
As a matter of fact, and besides all the advances in Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence, it's one of those things that are very easy to describe but very difficult to implement, at least in a way really usable for a normal human being.
But, for a Giant task, how about a giant? How about Microsoft?
Researchers at Microsoft computers think they can do just that. Someday… Google and Microsoft already offer news aggregation sites that collect all of the day's news stories from throughout the Web. However, MSN Newsbot and Google News present the first part of a story, assuming that is the most important part.
Microsoft research is looking into creating software that can read the whole article--and dozens of others on the same topic--and come up with an accurate summary. In theory the research could be extended to even allow the summary to mimic a particular style--giving, say, a Wall Street Journal-style summary of Jennifer Lopez' wedding to Marc Anthony.
"The research issue is comprehension," said Lucy Vanderwende, who is heading the project. "Can the machine understand?" If the answer is yes, you can bet the folks at MSN want to know. Indeed, several of the research projects Microsoft showed off Wednesday in Silicon Valley are designed to help the company in two of its most critical challenges--battling security threats and taking on Google in the Web search and information business. The miniature science fair was part of a road show for Microsoft, which held a larger exhibition in March at its main campus in Redmond, Wash.
Check this link for more info.
* BTW, one the reason ZapFuture was created is to agglomerate everything that's really new and important in one place, and thus facilitate your need to be up-to-date with what’s cool and new. |
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