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Subject: Conversation programs
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Date: 22 Apr 88 20:42:00 GMT
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Someone asked for sources on programs like ELIZA & SHRDLU:

R.C. Parkinson, K.M. Colby, W.S. Faught.  "Conversational Language
   Comprehension Using Integrated Pattern-Matching & Parsing."  Artificial
   Intelligence 9, 1977, p. 111-134.  Also found in a recent (1986?) collection
   from Morgan Kaufman, Understanding Natural Language (or the same words in
   some other order).  Parry: a simulation of a paranoid patient.  Program
   outline.

Michael Dyer. Understanding Natural Language. 1983.  Boris: A system to
   summarize & answer questions about narratives.  About 400 pages.
   Talks about emotional scripts (ACEs or AFFECTs, I forget), memory
   organization, extensive use of demons.

Joseph Weizenbaum.  "ELIZA - A Computer Program for the Study of Natural
   Language Communication Between Man and Machine."  Communications of the ACM,
   Jan 1966 V9 #1 p. 36-45.

Weizenbaum.  "Contextual Understanding by Computers."  CACM, Aug 67 V10 #8,
   p. 474-480.  Note that Weizenbaum's extensions to ELIZA let it do much
   more than the sample ELIZAs you see popping up in magazines every now &
   then, including learning & answering queries.

Terry Winograd.  Understanding Natural Language. 1971.  SHRDLU.


Whoever asked about Racter - it was originally written on, surprise, the
   Apple IIe.