Introducing MegaHAL

  • Authors:

  • Jason L. Hutchens;Michael D. Alder

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Western Australia, Nedlands W.A., Australia;University of Western Australia, Nedlands W.A., Australia

  • Venue:
  • NeMLaP3/CoNLL '98 Proceedings of the Joint Conferences on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Conversation simulators are computer programs which give the appearance of conversing with a user in natural language. Alan Turing devised a simple test in order to decide whether such programs are intelligent. In 1991, the Cambridge Centre for Behavioural Studies held the first formal instantiation of the Turing Test. In this incarnation the test was known as the Loebner contest, as Dr. Hugh Loebner pledged a $100,000 grand prize for the first computer program to pass the test. In this paper we give a brief background to the contest, before describing in detail the workings of MegaHAL, the primary author's entry to the 1998 Loebner contest.