Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!umn-d-ub!cs.umn.edu!sctc.com!endrizzi From: endrizzi@sctc.com (Michael Endrizzi ) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: >Fault-tolerant Information Recall Message-ID: <1990Apr10.011548.20523@sctc.com> Date: 10 Apr 90 01:15:48 GMT References: <1990Apr3.200220.9513@sctc.com> <831@dgis.dtic.dla.mil> Distribution: comp.databases Organization: Secure Computing Technology Corporation Lines: 47 Hi Jon, Thanks for taking time looking at the examples. >>And more than a bit scary on updates. "Give the employees who work >>in the shoe department a 10% raise" is the safe example. "Give the I would have to agree with you on updates. If you told a spelling checker to correct your document and ship it to the customer without any type of manual review, you would loose your job awfully fast. However, this does not mean that spelling checkers are worthless. This is the only claim I am making for our model. Errors exist in queries and in data bases, and currently there is no way of filtering through this information ( I do not consider regexp() a very powerful tool). If I gave you a document that is 10,000 pages long and told you to manually find the errors, you never would. If I gave you a database with 10,000 records and told you to manully find the errors, you never would. >employees who work in the more deserving departments a 10% raise" is >the getting-interesting-time example. "Loan the customers with >acceptable credit histories the money" is the fear and loathing example. This example does not make any sense in both traditional RDBMS search methods or our model. Our model only searches on syntactic information. Words like "acceptable" and "more deserving" are filled with semantics that only the AI types could attempt to figure out. Thanks Again Jon, Dreez ================================================================= ================================================================= Michael J. Endrizzi Secure Computing Technology Corp. 1210 W. County Road E #100 Arden Hills, Mn. 55112 endrizzi@sctc.com (612) 482-7425 *Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are not of my employer but of the American people. ================================================================= =================================================================