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Chatterbox Challenge as a Test-Bed for Synthetic Emotions

Chatterbox Challenge as a Test-Bed for Synthetic Emotions

Jordi Vallverdú, Huma Shah, David Casacuberta
Copyright: © 2010 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 26
ISSN: 1947-9093|EISSN: 1947-9107|EISBN13: 9781609608927|DOI: 10.4018/jse.2010070102
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Vallverdú, Jordi, et al. "Chatterbox Challenge as a Test-Bed for Synthetic Emotions." IJSE vol.1, no.2 2010: pp.12-37. http://doi.org/10.4018/jse.2010070102

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Vallverdú, J., Shah, H., & Casacuberta, D. (2010). Chatterbox Challenge as a Test-Bed for Synthetic Emotions. International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), 1(2), 12-37. http://doi.org/10.4018/jse.2010070102

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Vallverdú, Jordi, Huma Shah, and David Casacuberta. "Chatterbox Challenge as a Test-Bed for Synthetic Emotions," International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE) 1, no.2: 12-37. http://doi.org/10.4018/jse.2010070102

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Abstract

Chatterbox Challenge is an annual web-based contest for artificial conversational systems, ACE. The 2010 instantiation was the tenth consecutive contest held between March and June in the 60th year following the publication of Alan Turing’s influential disquisition ‘computing machinery and intelligence’. Loosely based on Turing’s viva voca interrogator-hidden witness imitation game, a thought experiment to ascertain a machine’s capacity to respond satisfactorily to unrestricted questions, the contest provides a platform for technology comparison and evaluation. This paper provides an insight into emotion content in the entries since the 2005 Chatterbox Challenge. The authors find that synthetic textual systems, none of which are backed by academic or industry funding, are, on the whole and more than half a century since Weizenbaum’s natural language understanding experiment, little further than Eliza in terms of expressing emotion in dialogue. This may be a failure on the part of the academic AI community for ignoring the Turing test as an engineering challenge.

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