Eliza / Doctor: Difference between revisions

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Famous "mother of all chatbot" programs by wikipedia:Joseph Weizenbaum. Eliza was in fact a generic engine for producing / conducting interactive dialogues. The "DOCTOR" script became the legendary example of a "Rogerian" psychologist employing mirroring technique to converse with its user as patient.

Original publication : Computational Linguistics: ELIZA--A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine
online/javascript implementation -- https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/

The original source code seems to be lost (?). A faithful implmentation was made by Charles Hayden in the Java language and included in the CD-ROM of the MIT Press publication: New Media Reader.

Other similar (but not complete) eliza implementations:

https://github.com/dhconnelly/paip-python/blob/master/paip/eliza.py

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 * [http://web.stanford.edu/class/linguist238/p36-weizenabaum.pdf Original publication : Computational Linguistics: ELIZA--A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine]
 * online/javascript implementation -- https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/
+The original source code seems to be lost (?). A faithful implmentation was made by Charles Hayden in the Java language and included in the CD-ROM of the MIT Press publication: New Media Reader.
 * http://automatist.org/eliza/