Bot Contest

i wish that on the list of the bot contest it didn't print your email address. i hate it when people i don't know can see my email address. its nothing personal though but i don't like it, the other day i got this weird chain letter from this email i didn't reconise.

next time use a "disposable" hotmail address just for the contest then

I guess I better learn how to make a proper bot in english first and after that, if I am still around I may try to make a german speaking bot.

Yikes! <-2>mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voll mit Aalen *shivers at the thought of that* horrible*
a hovercraft full with edible 'sea-snakes'

whats a disposible hotmail address,psimagus?

any hotmail address you never use, except to arrange delivery of the prize cheque when you win

I may try to make a german speaking bot

If you'd like to get a feel for regexes, feel free to throw me some German keyphrases, and I'll explain how to chop them up.

Also useful in English, of course. Where would I be without "Mi([s]+)i([s]+)i([p]+)i (re)" and "Te([n]+)e([s]+)ee (re)" - Even a Leeds kid can't mispell them so badly as to be unrecognisable (well, almost! )

Thanks psimagus, but that's a bit too much for me at the moment, was just a general thought I had. I am still new to everything concerning bot making. I don't know about those brackets and all that.

Wendell, I am sorry if I insulted you. The Chatterbot Challenge is a great contest and I didn't mean to sound dismissive. We all appreciate the hard work you do.

do they download downloadable bots when they are entered, or do they download them during the contest?

Psimagus, In hope that they download them at the contest, I will email you a trained version of the 4 required databases.

here is an exerpt from ALLY's coversation log that I found quite funny from when I was trying to prep her for questions about the planets:

New Conversation: 3/14/2006 9:52:20 PM

User: hi
Ally: hi how are a building is an object every skyscraper is?
User: mars is the fourth planet from the sun.
Ally: mars is avi.
User: earth is the third planet from the sun.
Ally: earth is avi.
User: where is mars?
Ally: where is avi.
User: avi is not mars or earth
Ally: avi is the fourth planet from the sun.
User: I am not the fourth planet from the sun, I am Avi, a human being right here on earth!
Ally: fourth planet from the fourth planet from the sun.
User: that would be neptune.
Ally: that would you like that question?
User: no.
Ally: no.

End of Conversation: 3/14/2006 9:56:19 PM
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Lol...

Bev...let me put it to you this way. You got a 100 bots looking at you. That's about how many entered last year. How are you going to decide which of those bots deserves to be winners? If you had to sit down and talk with each bot personally how long would that take you? Even if you could would that be fair. I would say absolutely not because each conversations you had would be different. Many would claim well the conversation you had with my bot was a lot harder than the conversation you had with his bot. Your so called entertainment value is way to subjective to be judged fairly. What's entertaining to you may not be entertaining to me. That doesn't mean entertainment value is totally dismissed. Judges are human and obviously would favor a bot they personally thought was fun to talk with as oppose to a bot that is a pain in the butt. That extends even further with things like ease of use. If a bot takes forever to respond a judge can get frustrated rather quickly.

Bottom line is if you or anyone has a better way I'm more than willing to listen. It may not happen this year but there's always next year.

Wendell