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

