The question would be, which different forms of "Joe is a bozo, he has
333 balloons" are you expecting?
Depending on whether your emails are basically constrained or about a
certain domain, you can write a simple rules engine-type of code. You
might even get away with writing a lex/yacc/bison parser.
If you're expecting natural language input or input in different
languages, then there's a whole lot of things you'd need to think
about, like sentence boundary detection, word-boundary detection,
phrase detection, Part-of-Speech deduction, and word-sense
disambiguation. For all these, there are techniques ranging from the
script-kitten approach, to rule generators, to various classification
techniques, markov models, and so on...
What is the size of your problem, and what amount of resources do you
have to solve this problem? Depending on these constraints, you might
choose an approach that is not necessarily the best technology-wise,
but works for your problem.
Regards,
Milind
vjp2.at[ at ]at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
[Quoted Text] > I get an email that says "Joe is a bozo, he has 333 baloons" I have > user-defined Outlook fields for BOZO and BALLOONS. I want to have the > program to automagically start a new record and put "joe" in the BOZO > field and 333 in BALOONS. If "BOZO" is a KEY and I already have a > record for Joe, I want the program to update the existing record > instead. The eMail has not been previously formatted for XML. I have > been told "XML Smart Tags" is the way to accomplish this task. Is > this so? How do I start? I've written hundreds of FORTRAN and Algol > programs and tens of Pascal and C programs and modified one Assembler > program (Assembler twenty years ago), bu tmostly form a math rather > than a data perspective. > > > - = - > Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Reagan Mozart Pindus BioStrategist > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm> ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- > [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] > [Yellary Clinton & Yellalot Spitzer: Nasty Together]
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