Topic: Text Recognition: Intelligent Agents Description: Designing software to accept text as input, parse and understand it, and generate a coherent response. Motivation: Giving a computer the ability to recognize and respond to human language could greatly increase both the ease with which people can use systems and the limitations of commercial software. References: Michael Wooldridge, Nick Jennings, “Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice,” Knowledge Engineering Review Volume 10 No 2, June 1995. Ira Rudowsky, “Intelligent Agents,” Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, New York, August 2004