PGOETZ@LOYVAX.BITNET (04/23/88)
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.