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From: 880039l@aucs.UUCP (Katherine Layton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,can.ai
Subject: Eliza in German
Keywords: Eliza, dialog
Message-ID: <1940@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 13:21:25 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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I am working for the German department at Acadia University and I was 
asked to write (or if I could write) a program to be used by german
students.  The program is to carry on a conversation with the student, 
both asking the student questions and having them answer them, and letting
the student ask the computer questions and have the computer give an
appropriate response.  The questions can be fairly basic such as'where do
you live', 'what are you studying', etc..   We also want the computer to
be able to check the student's grammer - did they use the right verb tense,
does the sentence make sense?

I know there is a program called Eliza that is similar to this 
but I haven't a copy of it.  I've looked at a program called doctor which
is written in LISP but it is rather slow and I have very little experience
with LISP.  I'm interested in something written it C or PASCAL that could
possibly be modified to run in German.  The prof I'm working for does not
know the first thing about computers so  he would be willing to accept that
it is not possible or practical at the current time.

If anyone has done something like this or has any good ideas about how I might 
do you please send me E-mail.

Thanks.

Katherine Layton
880039l@Acadia
880039l@aucs.UUCP