Abstract :
This article presents WebFountain, a system that can convert the anarchy of online data - Web pages, e-mail, chat rooms, and more - into a format that can be analyzed to identify commercially valuable information. By leveraging the vast reserves of untapped information online, WebFountain can let companies make smarter business decisions while creating an open platform that encourages more machine understanding research to leave the laboratory.
Keywords :
Web sites; business data processing; decision support systems; electronic mail; information analysis; information resources; knowledge engineering; Web pages; WebFountain; analysis engine; business decisions; chat rooms; commercially valuable information; e-mail; machine understanding; mailing lists; newsgroups; newspaper articles; online data; open platform; public databases; Engines;
