[XML-SIG] [ANN] Narval 1.1
Alexandre Fayolle
Alexandre.Fayolle@logilab.fr
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:27:54 +0200 (CEST)
Logilab (www.logilab.com) announces the release of
Narval 1.1
GPL'd Intelligent Personnal Assistant Framework
http://www.logilab.org/narval
News
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The whole project has moved from python 1.5.2 to python 2.1
A few new features have made it into the engine, such as automatically
reloading modules that have changed on disk, as well as some speed
improvements. Several new modules (automatic classification, LDAP
directory
access, checksum computing) have made it into the standard library.
The Horn GUI has been completely redesigned for better flexibility,
speed
and better ease of use.
The infopal application (available separately) has received a large
number
of improvements.
The mailing lists have been moved to use mailman. More information can
be
found at http://lists.logilab.org/mailman/listinfo
Description
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Narval is a framework (language + interpreter + GUI/IDE) dedicated to the
setting up of intelligent personal assistants (IPAs).
An Intelligent Personal Assitant is a companion that will help you in your
daily work in the information world. It runs on your machine or on a
remote
server, and you can communicate with it via all standard means (email,
web,
telnet, phone, specific GUI, etc). It executes recipes (sequences of
actions)
you wrote, to perform a wide range of tasks, such as prepare your morning
newspaper, help you surf the web by filtering out junk ads, keep searching
the web day after day for things you want, participe in on-line auctions,
learn you interests and bring you back valuable information, take care of
repetitive chores, answer e-mail, negociate the date and time of a
meeting,
and much more... It is easy to extend the built in action library by
writing
new actions in Python.
Infopal, your information pal, is a Narval application that implements
part of
the above, but Narval makes it easy for you to set up new
assistants. Others
applications will soon be available from Logilab.
Logilab S.A. is a French company that specializes in the fields of
artificial
intelligence, knowledge management, data analysis and natural language
processing.
More info
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Please see
http://www.logilab.org/narval
http://www.logilab.com
http://www.logilab.fr
or contact contact@logilab.fr
Alexandre Fayolle
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LOGILAB, Paris (France).
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Narval, the first software agent available as free software (GPL).