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Parsing ambiguous addresses for electronic services
Author(s) -
Honeyman Peter,
Parseghian Patricia E.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380170106
Subject(s) - heuristics , parsing , computer science , set (abstract data type) , host (biology) , path (computing) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , world wide web , programming language , ecology , biology , operating system
Pathparse is a tool with a practical approach to disambiguating problematic routes for services such as electronic mail. Pathparse resolves syntactic and host name ambiguities with the aid of a database that describes host connections. The parser generates a set of path/user pairs; heuristics are used to select one among these, which may then be used by a conventional mail handler.