[Announce] eliza ported to Inform

[Ricardo Dague]

I've uploaded eliza.tgz to ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/incoming.
It's a port to Inform of that old ELIZA program which is a
simulation of a conversation with a psychiatrist. The file
contains the Inform source, the .z5 game file, a sample
transcript, and the BASIC source from which it was ported.

All the program really does is scan each line the user
enters for a key phrase (such as "why can't I" or "you are")
and prints out a suitable response. After many of the
responses, everything the user typed in after the key phrase
is parroted back with certain words replaced (such as "am"
for "are" and "I" for "you"). I think it's amazing that the
program gives such a realistic and varied simulation of a
real response.

-- Ricardo

[LucFrench]

>I've uploaded eliza.tgz to ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/incoming.
>It's a port to Inform of that old ELIZA program which is a
>simulation of a conversation with a psychiatrist. The file
>contains the Inform source, the .z5 game file, a sample
>transcript, and the BASIC source from which it was ported.

Hey, would you Mind Uploading Just the Z5 file?

Thanks
Luc "Capitolize" French

[Rotonoto]

I used to see how long it took her to flunk the Turing test ... usually
some grammatical blunder ... but it was amazing how long she could go
sometimes.

[Mark J Musante]

A grammatical blunder causes a failure? Whoa. I guess I'm software,
then.

Thanks for opening my eyes to reality!

-=- Mark -=-

[Brian 'Beej' Hall]

In article <36BDC0D4...@hotmail.com>,

Ricardo Dague <tri...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>transcript, and the BASIC source from which it was ported.

It seems to me that the original Eliza was rather complex compared to
the BASIC version...It's been so long that I don't remember. Does
anyone know what the original was written in and where to get source?

(This isn't meant to belittle your Inform port, which is very cool. For
all I know, I could be totally wrong and the BASIC version _was_ the
original version.)

Cheers,
-Beej

[Brent VanFossen]

On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:53:08 GMT, Ricardo Dague <tri...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I've uploaded eliza.tgz to ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/incoming.

Thank you! Somehow, I had never seen this before, although I'd heard
of it many times.

Brent VanFossen

[Wildman, the Cuberstalker]

On 8 Feb 1999 16:24:11 GMT, Brian 'Beej' Hall <be...@ecst.csuchico.edu>
wrote:

LISP. But for some reason, it was very popular to implement it in BASIC.
Possibly because of the string handling.

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[Trevor Barrie]

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:12:24 GMT, Mark J Musante <olo...@world.std.com> wrote:
>Rotonoto (rre...@unm.edu) wrote:
>> I used to see how long it took her to flunk the Turing test ... usually
>> some grammatical blunder ... but it was amazing how long she could go
>> sometimes.
>
>A grammatical blunder causes a failure? Whoa. I guess I'm software,
>then.

The grammatical blunders Eliza makes are rather different from those that
humans typically make.

[Ricardo Dague]

I didn't realize it until yesterday, but Dave Allan ported
Eliza to TADS in 1994. It's in
ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/tads/examples/eliza.zip.

There are also two LISP versions of it in that file, and
Dave notes that the original author is Wes Modes.

-- Ricardo
"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't
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