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Mining Unstructured Data
jscribner writes "Data these days tends to an unstructured form, be it text (like the web, email, or books), spoken word, or even in DB's with unique organization (and thus a discrete language). There's a new article on Unstructured Data in Think Research; it's an overview of the challenges, progress, and potential rewards in this area. I'm leaving on your doorstep because, to me, it's a good launching point for discussion of several interesting possibilities: /. as a minable DB of ideas, email identified by interpretation rather than keywords, emotive XML, etc."
A Machine will be considered truly intelligent when it can translate all emails on slashdot into a usable form. Since spammers are some of the most persistent and aggressive users and developers of technology, I expect we'll have real AI telling us how to enlarge our penises by next Thursday.
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
"email identified by interpretation rather than keywords"
Report: The attached email messages indicate a successful business plan. This simple way to make money fast by selling pamphlets is interpreted as being good: it has been confirmed by many quotes within the email, by repetition in many similar emails, by the suggested calculation of potential return.
Opportunity: There is an unfilled business opportunity which is confirmed by the lack of existing businesses which use this plan. Searches of local and national databases have not found any businesses which are using this method.
Suggestion: Give me a dollar so I can start a business.