Why not Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems?
There are some very impressive artificial intelligence (NLP) programs out there which attempt to read English sentences and figure out what they actually mean. Many people have suggested using these programs for figuring out web pages. In the ideal world, an intelligent agent robot could go out and assist you by reading HTML pages on its own, figuring out the information contained in them, and reporting back to you. Unfortunately, the ideal world won’t be here for some time. Natural language processing still has a very long way to go, with tremendous hurdles to overcome. Additionally, the web was not only written in a human-readable language (usually English) but in a human-vision-oriented layout (HTML with tables, frames, etc.) and with human-only-readable graphics. State-of-the-art natural language technology might help with the first problem, but nothing can currently handle the other two. Don’t expect robots using this technology to be of real help any time soon. 1.5 What else coul
