WRT: Writer Response Theory

On the 25th November Alicebot will celebrate 10 years inconjunction with the annual Colloquium on Conversation. It will be held at the Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

An informal one-day meeting will be held at which invited speakers will give short presentations on aspects of conversational systems and participants will demonstrate their developed and experimental programs.

Speakers are:

Cameo Wood (Imitation Game Organizer)

Vladimir Veselov (Loebner Prize finalist)

Rollo Carpenter (Loebner Prize winner)

Kevin Copple (Loebner Prize winner)

Robby Garner (Loebner Prize double winner)

Dr David Hamill (Loebner Prize finalist)

Monica Peters (Chatterbot Entrepreneur)

Simon Laven (Chatterbot Historian)

Chris Ward (Emotional semantics researcher)

Dr Hugh Loebner (Loebner Prize founder)

Dr Richard Wallace (Loebner Prize triple winner)