A chatbot system as a tool to animate a corpus
BA Abu Shawar, Eric Atwell · White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) · 2005
“Before there were computers, we could distinguish persons from non-persons on the basis of an ability to participate in conversations. But now, we have hybrids operating between person and non persons with whom we can talk in ordinary language. ” (Colby 1999). Human machine conversation as a technology