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NeMLaP3/CoNLL '98: Proceedings of the Joint Conferences on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

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Conversation simulators are computer programs which give the appearance of conversing with a user in natural language. Alan Turing devised a simple test in order to decide whether such programs are intelligent. In 1991, the Cambridge Centre for Behavioural Studies held the first formal instantiation of the Turing Test. In this incarnation the test was known as the Loebner contest, as Dr. Hugh Loebner pledged a $100,000 grand prize for the first computer program to pass the test. In this paper we give a brief background to the contest, before describing in detail the workings of MegaHAL, the primary author's entry to the 1998 Loebner contest.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3022473.3022498

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NeMLaP3/CoNLL '98: Proceedings of the Joint Conferences on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

January 1998

332 pages

ISBN:0725806346

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David M. W. Powers
Flinders Uni, Australia

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Association for Computational Linguistics

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Zubek RHorswill I(2005)Hierarchical parallel Markov models of interactionProceedings of the First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment10.5555/3022473.3022498(141-146)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2005
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