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Improving Human-Like Qualities of Chatbots -Draft

This entry is part 4 of 13 in the series The State of Chatbots

Some researchers are designing chatbots with the intent of integrating more natural human-like interactions (De Angeli & Brahnam, 2008). Specifically, the developer may program certain responses that would sacrifice accuracy, but confer more human-like traits (Sing et al., 2006). For example, if a chatbot is presented with a math problem it could wait, as if [...]

Posted 11 April 2009 † Robert Whetsel § Research ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Rule-Based Conversation -Draft

This entry is part 1 of 13 in the series The State of Chatbots

The majority of current chatbots use a rule-based approach to interact with the user. In order to imitate human conversations, developers use a linguistic model combined with computational algorithms to build chatbots. Depending on the chatbot, rules can be based on simple textual pattern matching or complicated rules based on inference mechanisms (De Angeli & [...]

Posted 11 April 2009 † Robert Whetsel § Research ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,