ALIMbot Concept
Mohammed Faizul Wahid, 17, June
2002
Revisited 12 August 2003
The concept of ALIMbot is not very different from that of the already
existing chatbots. However ALIMBot tries to give more attention to develop an
effective Chatbot-User Interaction. For this the following two major tasks
need to be accomplished.
- WHAT TO SAY. The main aim of conversing with a human requires the
minimum use of non sequitur (a statement that does not logically follow from
the statement or context that preceded it). For this ALIMbot measures the Relevance
Level for a particular case and that having the highest relevance is the
ultimate response to the user input. This is what is followed in the Case-Based
Reasoning employed in ALICE.
- HOW TO SAY. The first task is an important task. Since long many
techniques are being used to develop a chatbot which could think and
respond like humans do. The achievement in this case is appreciable but
not sufficient to tag each chatbot output as a (particular) human(s)
response. However the efforts are turning the chatbot output into more human-like
response. Along with this achievement a second task needs
attention. This task is to present the output of the chatbot in a
more effective (more humanistic) way to the user. This includes the use of
other human senses like sound (through voice response), touch (haptic) and
smell (very difficult).
Another interesting way to represent the human feelings in the text output
of the chatbot. Words representing Anger or importance can be
written in capitals while joy can be represented in a multicolor
output. Thus HOW TO SAY is a question which this project tries to answer.
The ALIMbot's development would try to attend to both the tasks for creating
a more humanistic chatbot which would try to answer and converse with a human
user effectively. The second task still seems to be far away!!
© Documentation ALIMbot
by Mohammed Faizul Wahid