Exposing task information to online service providers

A system for exposing task information, comprising:

• a task information exposer comprising one or more computing devices, said computing devices being in communication with each other via a computer network whenever there is a plurality of computing devices, and a computer program having a plurality of sub-programs executable by said computing devices, wherein the sub-programs configure said computing devices to,
• receive a dataset comprising one or more electronic messages,
• identify one or more task intents in the dataset, each of the identified task intents comprising a specific task that is to be completed, and
• for each of the identified task intents,
• identify a person who is mentioned in the dataset and is assigned to fulfill the identified task intent,
• identify one or more service providers each of whom offers one or more online services that are capable of assisting in the fulfillment of the identified task intent,
• send a list of the identified service providers to the identified person,
• receive a one of the identified service providers in said list that is selected by the identified person, and
• expose information associated with the identified task intent to the selected one of the identified service providers.

A computer-implemented process for exposing task information, the process comprising the actions of:

• using one or more computing devices to perform the following process actions, the computing devices being in communication with each other via a computer network whenever a plurality of computing devices is used:
• receiving a dataset comprising one or more electronic messages;
• identifying one or more task intents in the dataset, each of the identified task intents comprising a specific task that is to be completed;
• and
• for each of the identified task intents,
• identifying one or more service providers each of whom offers one or more online services that are capable of assisting in the fulfillment of the identified task intent, and
• exposing information associated with the identified task intent to each of the identified service providers.