On JavaScript, I plan on porting mine to a Windows based application for the Loebner Prize. The only issue would be not the Internet access but access to a browser API on the hosting machine (Internet Explorer preferred. ) that would hosting the competition.

Does anyone know the platform involved? Windows? Apache? Linux?

Thanks!

Windows,
But with a very unique file based chat system.

The computers used for the competition are all Windows boxes (at least they have been in the past), and are likely to be running either Vista or Win 7. The major problem you’re going to have is adapting your app to use the LPP (Loebner Prize Protocol) as communications protocol. It’s a “one character at a time” kinda thing, and given the nature of your bot, may be a bit of a challenge to adapt to.

Take a look at http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/2010_Contest/Loebner_Prize_Rules_2010.html for the official rules, which also describes the LPP, and provides a link to the judging program used, which is written in PERL, to give you some ideas about how you might create an interface.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Dave,

If I understand you correctly, the response needs to be “streamed” as single characters to simulate someone actually typing in the response real time? If that’s the case, I am already ahead of the curve since Marie already responds that way. I even adjust the speed of the character stream dynamically depending in the length of the string response.

This sounds like real fun!

I read the documentation from the link you provided Dave. . Wow, The requirements are very specific indeed, but nothing I can not adapt Marie’s engine to. It will be a challege, but again sounds like fun.

But first things first… The CBC

Best of luck in both arenas, Laura. You’ll be up against Morti in the CBC, but he’s far from ready for the LC. Far too many family issues and self-inflicted distractions have occurred, and I’m way behind in my goals. :(

Thanks Dave

You know that I understand what your going through from a caregivers point of view? As far as the LC is concerned, it might be a bit ambitious since Marie is hardly in the beta stage at this point. So I will see how she does in the CBC first and then I will have a better idea if she is ready. Marie is more of a Virtual Internet Assistant first and a conversationalist second. I believe that the CBC is scored on many areas including user engagement. I believe there is nothing like Marie in the way she creates a seamless bridge between a chatterbot and a search engine. With speech recognition and voice to text technology, Marie will be well in par with device based services such Siri. Of course Marie does not require a specific OS or third party download.

Sorry, not trying to spam a commercial for Marie, but I am very excited about her possibilities.