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From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: conversations?
Message-ID: <977@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Apr 88 13:05:41 GMT
References: <37291OK2@PSUVMB>
Reply-To: gilbert@crete.UUCP (Gilbert\ Cockton)
Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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In article <37291OK2@PSUVMB> OK2@PSUVMB.BITNET writes:
>     Both PARRY and ELIZA take advantage of the tactic of predefining the
>context of the conversation (a conversation with a paranoiac, or conversation
>with a therapist) to imply real meaning to sentences the program generates from
>key words picked from the human's sentences.

If my memory is correct, PARRY was not just a program, but required a
human operator to intervene between the input from the psychiatrists
and others to whom PARRY was demonstrated, presumably doing a simple
translation from English to S-expressions :-)