Charles Kroeger wrote: >> why just not installing it and giving it a try - it's very simple. >> I've tried it. It's a chat/conversation engine. > > OK > >>I've written a thesis about dialogue systems, > > Is this online somewhere?
not sure - besides, it's in German. It might be published next year or I could send you a copy. > >>but megaHAL is not what someone would expect. > > You mean megahal is sort of incomplete not developed completely? No, it's made for fun. > >> As far as I remember it has a different logic then ALICE but the >> output As is similar. > > What is ALICE? you need some basics in computational linguistics - ALICE is ELIZA today the first chat engine. http://www.alicebot.org/aimlbots.html > >> Do you know that Wikipedia exists? It's explained there and you can find >> a lot of articles about it in Google. > > I use the Wikipedia, that great jewel of the Internet; Google, not so much > just a quaint superstition about being syndicated. > > I like to hear expert opinion outside the Wiki, personal experience > etc. HMM are used for stochastic and other statistic based computations - it's very useful. > >> No and no. > > OK, it's a chat/conversation engine but not like a chat room so I'm > unlikely to have a diverting keyboard banter with megaHAL? At first of > course I would be more tolerant like that first date. I don't understand completely well what you mean - but you can chat with megaHAL > >>> What is a 'scripting pleasure module' for Perl Python or Tcl? > >> I don't know ... what do you mean? > > This was part of the package description when it came up. I thought it > might be an inside joke. Scripting pleasure modules has a kind of decadent > whiff about it. You better Google that, Emanoil. > :-) You are asking the questions - personally, I am done with megaHAL. Right now I'm having fun with Rebecca http://rebecca-aiml.sourceforge.net/ I've just downloaded and compiled the cvs code the day before yesterday. What are you exactly looking for? For professional dialogue engines have a look at http://smartkom.org There are very good demos. There is also a very good book (2006) describing the architecture of SmartKom regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
