Greetings all, Our next NLP group meeting will be on Tue Nov 10 at 2pm (in HH 321, the CS conference room). We'll be discussing the Parry paper (by Colby) in more detail, and also get started on talking about the Turing test, by focusing on Turing's original paper. Both of these papers are available in the Files section of the Yahoo group.
Our next meeting after that will be on Tue Nov 24, and will feature your Eliza programs! So, you should be finishing your alpha version (with 10 keywords and 3 transformations, nicely explained to the user via perldoc) in the next few days if at all possible, and then your beta version (with 20 keywords and 10 transformations, nicely explained via perloc) by this Friday Nov 13. I'll run those and give some advice on what to do next, and then you should have your final Eliza program ready by Friday Nov 20. I will again review those and then share them with everyone in the group so that we can each run everyone else's program, and we'll discuss what we observed in our Tue Nov 24 meeting. I will ask you to send me at least 2 interesting sessions you had with each Eliza program by Monday Nov 23, and then I'll print those out and we can use them to discuss the programs in our meeting. I will also print out your source code and perldoc so that we can discuss that content as well. As to writing, once your Eliza summary has been finished and approved by me, please start to work on a summary of the Parry paper (the Colby one) and then after that you'll do a summary of the Turing paper. We should have all of those finished before the Tue Nov 24 meeting, since that will be our wrapup discusion of Eliza, Parry and the Turing Test (and we'll look at each other's summaries during that meeting too.) BTW, if you haven't voted in our Turing Test poll, please do that asap! See you this Tuesday - please do let me know of any questions! Thanks, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
