EHeBby: An Evocative Humorist Chat-Bot

Detecting Bot-Answerable Questions in Ubuntu Chat

Ubuntu’s Internet Relay Chat technical support channel has bots that output specific messages in response to command words from other channel users. These messages can be used to answer frequently-asked questions instead of requiring an expert to (repeatedly) type a lengthy reply. We describe an approach to automatically distinguish bot-answerable questions, which would mitigate this problem. T...

From Bot to Bot: Using a Chat Bot to Synthesize Robot Motion

We present Bot to Bot, a system for developers to write voice controlled applications in a high-level language while retaining portability over a variety of different robot hardware platforms. In this paper we describe how Bot to Bot leverages advances in natural language processing and robotic control to take a user’s voice command and translate it into a structured intent for the robot throug...

On a Chat Bot Finding Answers with Optimal Rhetoric Representation

We demo a chat bot with the focus on complex, multi-sentence questions that enforce what we call rhetoric agreement of answers with questions. Chat bot finds answers which are not only relevant by topic but also match the question by style, argumentation patterns, communication means, experience level and other attributes. The system achieves rhetoric agreement by learning pairs of discourse tr...

Text stylometry for chat bot identification and intelligence estimation

Connexus: An Evocative Interface

Human communication and interaction is comprised of a wide range of verbal and non-verbal cues. Further adoption of novel tele-communication methods such as email, chat, instant messaging (IM), mobile phone SMS text messaging, and videoconferencing; have augmented our mediated interaction abilities. However, a significant (and important) amount of human expression and interaction information is...