Announcement: Colloquium on Conversational Systems, November 25th, 2005
An informal one-day meeting will be held at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, at which invited speakers will give short presentations on aspects of conversational systems and participants will demonstrate their developed and experimental programs.
Keynote Address: The History of ALICE and AIML , by Dr Richard S Wallace
A Very Personal Entertainment, by Rollo Carpenter
Multifaceted Conversational Systems, by Robby Garner
Purposes and Structure of Conversations, by David and Lynne Hamill
Chatterbots: Past, Present and Future, by Simon Laven
Comments on the Turing Test and the Loebner Prize, by Hugh Loebner
The Secret Life of a Mohawk Virtual Human, by Mrs Monica Peters
Automated Testing Tools for Chatterbot Development, by Dr Vladimir Veselov
Emotion Semantics in Conversational Linguistics, by Chris Ward
Colloquium Details: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/Events/Colloquium.pdf