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October 29, 2005
Eliza
I thought alot about how Eliza might work. I think that Eliza works by taking familiar phrases and words from questions and reworking them into statements or questions. In addition, I think that Eliza is programmed to give a certain response to a question. For example, if I said the same thing over and over again, Eliza would give hte same response time after time.
Alot of us talked about Smarter Child and other Instant Messenger Robots, but while doing some research on Eliza I noticed that she is also similar to search engines such as Ask Jeeves. Jeeves is able to pull pertinent/key words out of a question that an individual asks and respond with useful information. For example, I asked, "How tall is an elephant?". Jeeves responded with alot of websites that answered this question, but also included other available "lists" of websites that answered questions about elephants, such as "How much does an elephant weigh?". Also, there were lists of other "similar" questions, such as "How fast does a cheetah run?". Although I am sure that Ask Jeeves runs differently from Eliza, the two are similar in that both are able to choose the key words from a question.
--Brenna D.
Posted by lciscotis at October 29, 2005 12:19 AM