MyGADS is a natural language information storage and retrieval engine - it is free - take the tour.
The illustrated example uses are impressive - plain language input and retrieval on information snippets such as:
- recommended restaurant
- lunch appointment
- capital of China (accesses CIA Factbook)
- population of Australia (accesses CIA Factbook and Wikipedia)
Where it starts to get really cool is in domain-specific information. At the moment I’m working with Matthew Hodgson on a nasty information management problem - a large body of complicated medical information needs to be made available to a variety of audiences in a way that makes sense to all of them. I’ve punched some example information into MyGADS and come up with some reliable answers. It isn’t a total solution by any means - it can be confused (cost equalling price, for example) and is very North American-centric (weather information and SMS access to the MyGADS query engine) - but the developers, Teragram, have a specialised solution called Direct Answers. That said, as much as MyGADS is able to provide, it provides nicely via the web and Google Chat.
My suggestion is that you get a free account and play with it - it is one more way to capture and present information.
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