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Bot colloquium Guildford, UK, 25 November 2005
Published on 02/26/05 at 04:09:24 GMT by Norbert
Bot colloquium Guildford, UK, 2-6pm on 25 November 2005
(sent Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:17:01 -0000) Here is the first announcement of an event we are organising for November. It is also being posted to the ALICE community. Please pass it on to anyone else you think may be interested.
David Hamill ( david at hamill dot co dot uk ) Rich Wallace ---- Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey
COLLOQUIUM ON CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS and celebration of ALICE's first ten years online
Guildford, UK, 2-6pm on 25 November 2005
First Announcement and Call for Participation
An informal afternoon meeting will be held at which invited speakers will give short presentations on aspects of conversational systems and participants will demonstrate their developed and experimental programs.
Conversational systems are intelligent computer interfaces that allow users to interact in plain English, either text or spoken. They represent an advance in human-computer interaction and have wide-ranging potential applications.
The leading open-source conversational system, ALICE, is now ten years old and has won the Loebner Prize three times. Dr Richard Wallace, creator of ALICE and its associated language AIML, will give a presentation and demonstrate the latest developments in this ongoing project.
The organizers are seeking participants working in this field to bring working demonstrations, which should be on their own hardware, and to take part in discussions of the current state of the art, known problems, and possible future directions.
The meeting is open to all and there will be no charge. However, numbers are limited, so if you wish to attend please contact bots@dwrc.org.uk to reserve a place, describing your interest and any proposed demonstration.
Provisional Programme
12.30pm-2pm: Lunch (buy your own) and photo opportunity at the Alan Turing statue
2pm-5pm: Presentations (with tea/coffee break)
Initial list of speakers:
Rollo Carpenter (Loebner Prize finalist) Robby Garner (Loebner Prize double winner) Dr David Hamill (Loebner Prize finalist) Simon Laven (chatterbot historian) Dr Hugh Loebner (Loebner Prize founder) Dr Richard Wallace (Loebner Prize triple winner)
5-6pm: Demonstrations and open discussions
6pm: Adjourn to bar for drinks (buy your own) and further discussions
Note: The details of this programme, and the list of speakers, may be subject to change.
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