A computer program which "understands"

  • Authors:
  • Bertram Raphael

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley, California

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '64 (Fall, part I) Proceedings of the October 27-29, 1964, fall joint computer conference, part I
  • Year:
  • 1964

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Abstract

This paper describes a computer program which demonstrates one approach to building an "intelligent" machine. The computer system called SIR---Semantic Information Retriever---exhibits some humanlike conversational behavior and appears to have certain cognitive abilities. The conversation presented in Figure 1 between a person (identified by "***.") and SIR illustrates some of the system's capabilities.