Chatterbot

A chatterbot (also chatbot, chatterbox) is a bot program which attempts to maintain a conversation with a person. While it is true that a good understanding of a conversation is required to carry on a meaningful dialog, most chatterbots do not attempt this. Instead they attempt to pick up cue words or phrases from the person which will allow them to use pre-prepared or pre-calculated responses which can move the conversation on in an apparently meaningful way without requiring them to know what they are talking about. One exception to this approach is Jabberwacky which attempts to model the way humans learn new facts and language.

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Bot - Program - Conversation - Person - Jabberwacky

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The classic early chatterbots are ELIZA and PARRY. More recent programs are Racter and A.L.I.C.E.. A collection of games and functional features accessed via natural language processing allows ELLA to further extend the potential of chatterbots.

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ELIZA - PARRY - Racter - A.L.I.C.E. - Natural language processing - ELLA

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Advanced chatterbots like Jabberwock are combining several linguistic and Artificial intelligence methods like Fuzzy logic, Context-free grammar algorithm and Markov chain together with a Semantic network and classic Supervised learning and Pattern recognition. Using this techniques the chatterbot is able to follow the subject of the conversation and to generate most of the replies on the fly instead of looking for a best match in a database. The multi-faceted approach was pioneered by Albert one.

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Linguistic - Artificial intelligence - Fuzzy logic - Context-free grammar - Markov chain - Semantic network - Supervised learning - Pattern recognition - Albert one

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Malicious chatterbots are frequently used to fill chat rooms with spam and advertising, or to entice people into revealing personal information, such as bank account numbers. If you want to see an amusing example of bots out of control, all of AOL's public rooms are filled entirely with a bewildering array of bots clamoring for attention.

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