chatterbots Papers

In some cases seems simple: to contract a skin rash the patient seeks a dermatologist; when the kids are sick he takes them to the pediatrician; or if you want to make a diet seeks a nutritionist. However, the doctor's choice is not always that easy. Currently in Brazil, 53 recognized medical specialties. Besides not knowing exactly what each one of the complicated names as angiologist, nephrologist or proctologist, often the patient is in doubt... Read more

In some cases seems simple: to contract a skin rash the patient seeks a dermatologist; when the kids are sick he takes them to the pediatrician; or if you want to make a diet seeks a nutritionist. However, the doctor's choice is not always that easy. Currently in Brazil, 53 recognized medical specialties. Besides not knowing exactly what each one of the complicated names as angiologist, nephrologist or proctologist, often the patient is in doubt... Read more

The evaluation of conversational agents or chatterbots question answering systems is a major research area that needs much attention. Before the rise of domain-oriented conversational agents based on natural language understanding and reasoning, evaluation is never a problem as information retrieval-based metrics are readily available for use. However, when chatterbots began to become more domain specific, evaluation becomes a real issue. This is especially true when understanding and reasoning is required to cater for a... Read more

AIML - A recently developed standard for describing knowledge for Robots using XML data structures is introduced. A very large English-based robot knowledge base developed using the standard is described. Many other knowledge-based projects based on other international languages are described. The English-based knowledge base is currently interacting with people at a rate of 100,000 inquiries per day. A unique web-based computer architecture (http://www.pandorabots.com) supporting the on-going development of the knowledge base is described. The... Read more

This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of Alice, a chatterbot designed in order to elicit anthropomorphic attributions and emotional reactions from those who chat to ‘her’. The analysis is based on both transcripts of the interaction and user comments collected in a focus group. Results suggest that the introduction of explicit anthropomorphism in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a complex phenomenon, which could generate strong negative reactions from the part of the user. The finding also... Read more

This is a research of graphical multi-user communication environments. I have studied the interactive behavior of and between humans and chatterbots. First I will describe the emotional and behavioral impacts that a chatterbot can provoke in users as individuals and as members of a group. Sometimes it is not self-evident to recognize who in a chat room is a bot and who is human. This is due to the limits and possibilities of digital interface,... Read more

The Turing Test was proposed by Alan Turing in 1950; he called it the Imitation Game. In 1991 Hugh Loebner started the Loebner prize competition, offering a 100,000 prize to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held each year with smaller prizes for the best program on a restricted Turing test. This paper describes the development of one such Turing System, including the technical design... Read more