Software agents

Software agents are pieces of software that do something for a user or another programme in an independent way. They react on their own. Many of their applications have to do in one way or the other with reacting to human knowledge as can be found in normal texts. Some examples:

• a user may want agents to react to specific types of contents or send alarms when particular events take place.

• a company may want to have robots perform searches online when stocks show certain characteristics or some news are released.

• a security agency is interested in detecting the exact behaviour of spamers.

• a political party wants to be kept informed of what people are writing about them.

The information agents use needs to have a certain form. Either they transform the original data into this structure themselves or someone else has to do it for them.

If an agent does not have the capabilities to interpret texts, which are highly ambiguous and irregular but very rich sources of knowledge, you can count on Crossminder to develop the solution for it. Crossminder works in developing the technology to make real understanding between humans and software and between different software parts that deal with human language.