Smart letters

    Truly semantics are the future. Although these technologies in programming, due to the complexity of implementation, are still poorly developed, work in this area is ongoing and on all fronts.

    Scientists at Stanford University for several years developed a semantic email system and have achieved great success. The peculiarity of their development “Smart email” is that when sending a letter to a person you do not need to specify his addressbut instead just describe the person himself. For example, "The head of such and such a department, such and such an organization." The system automatically analyzes the description, studying phrases and connections between words, and searches for information on all the bases available to it, which have accumulated a huge number in the network. The project manager, Professor Michael Gineseret, claims that the system works perfectly and is going to conduct closed testing with 6,000 people soon.

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    If everything goes smoothly, then in his opinion in a few years we won’t need address books at all. Although personally it’s easier for me to write 15 characters of a mailing address than to describe a person. On the other hand, there is no need to find, remember or store these addresses. Most likely, such a system will be primarily convenient for corporate mail of large companies. Well, in the second, the legion of spammers may be very interested ...

    Anyway, the project is very interesting and significant for the entire field of semantic search, the development of which will greatly benefit everyone.

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