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A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is an award-winning natural language processing chatterbot — a program that engages in a conversation with a human by applying some heuristical pattern matching rules to the human's input. It was inspired by Joseph Weizenbaum's classical ELIZA program but takes a quite different approach. It is one of the strongest programs of its type and has won the Loebner Prize three times (in 2000, 2001 and 2004). However, the program is unable to pass the Turing test as even the casual user will often expose its mechanistic aspects in short conversations. Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and linguistics. ... A chatterbot (also chatbot, chatterbox) is a bot program which attempts to maintain a conversation with a person. ... Joseph Weizenbaum. ... ELIZA is a famous 1966 computer program by Joseph Weizenbaum, which parodied a Rogerian therapist, largely by rephrasing many of the patients statements as questions and posing them to the patient. ... The Loebner Prize is an annual competition that awards prizes to the Chatterbot considered the most humanlike for that year. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machines capability to perform human-like conversation. ...

The name of the bot was chosen because the computer that ran the first version of the software was called Alice.

Development began in 1995. The program was rewritten in Java beginning in 1998, resulting in the current version "Program D." (A C++ version also exists.) The program uses an XML DTD called AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) for specifying the heuristic conversation rules. It is released under the copyleft license GPL. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Java is a reflective, object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. ... 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages. ... DTD is an initialism that can stand for: Document Type Definition, used in XML programming Delta Tau Delta, a US-based college fraternity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... AIML, or Artificial Intelligence Mark-up Language is an XML-based programming language. ... The reversed c is the copyleft symbol. ... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ...

The A.L.I.C.E. open source project includes over 300 contributors from around the world. The main contributor and original author is Richard Wallace. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Dr. Richard S. Wallace is the Chairman of the Board and co-founder of the A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation. ...

In November 2003, two instances of the bot were set to talk to each other, with results showing A.L.I.C.E.'s weaknesses. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• The homepage of the project
• Reference to the ALICE program at CERN
• The conversation of A.L.I.C.E. with A.L.I.C.E.
• AIML specification
• Clive Thompson: Approximating Life, The New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2002