Definition

One of the very first chat programs ever created. An example of very early natural language processing. Written by computer science professor Joseph Weizenbaum in the mid 60's at MIT.^[1]

Related Reading

• ALICE
• Chatbot
• Nerdle
• Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer power and human reason. San Francisco, CA: W.H. Freeman, 1976.

References

1. ↑ Weizenbaum, Joseph. "ELIZA - A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine," Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 9 (1966): 36-45.