Bot Contest

Join the club. I don't see how, though, they never even talked to SS

Just got this!----------------------------------------

The purpose of this email is to announce the 8 finalists for
the 2002 Loebner Prize Competition. They are as follows:

Kevin Copple
Wendell Cowart

Eugene Demchenko & Vladimir Veselov
Joy Harwood
Abe Othman
Fred Roberts
Robert Wald
Richard Wallace

All entrants were good and the effort everyone made is
appreciated. It was difficult to choose 8 finalists out of
all the talented applicants. Details on the process by which
the finalists were chosen will be posted on the web site
tomorrow.

Thank you to everyone who applied!
Loebner 2002 Organizing Committee
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Considering the fact that I wasn't ever evaluated, I'd be interested to see that process by which the finalists were chosen.

Same process that selected the semi-finalists, I'd wager.

I'm not sure. The only sign I ever saw of a judge-type conversation was weeks ago, when a few people briefly spoke to her using similar words to the ones on her application transcript, and asked her if she had a dog/cat. Other than that, the guests I've had haven't looked like actual judges at all.

By the way......

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!!!!!!

I wish a bunch more people from here made it. I too would love to know how they decided this, because I think some of the bots here are equal or superior to mine in many ways.

same here, i am not even sure KT was ever approached by any judges since she made it to the semi's, but if anyones bot made it i was betting money godL would! she rocks the casba!

CONGRATULATIONS BUTTERFLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TACKLE HUGGGGGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Congratulations Butterfly. You'll be representing the Forge in the finals.

If any of you have a moment to try to dig up the email address for the following people, I'd like to request their signature on the Agreement:

Eugene Demchenko & Vladimir Veselov, Abe Othman, Robert Wald, Richard Wallace

Well get goin'!

vladimir_veselov@mangoostdevelopment.com
aothman@umich.edu
dataguardian@crispdata.com (WALD)
drwallace@alicebot.org / rwallace@best.com

Oh, would you mind asking them if they have an evaluation transcript? I'm just curious.

This may just be me not understanding anything, but might you not be getting transcripts because they are allready on the web-hub, and are thus totally internal? Or does that only happen in the finals?

That would make sense for the contest. I was talking about shortly before the hub was set up. KT got quite a lot of conversation then, but GL didn't.

Cause I don't really know your names and am only slighty familia with the bots...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!! to any and all members of PF who made it to the semifinals.

In my humble opinion there are so many amazing bots here in the forge and I think it rocks that some are getting out there into the dubious wide world.