Using corpora in machine-learning chatbot systems

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 489-516

  Abu Shawar, Bayan ^a   Atwell, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afrikaans; AIML; Arabic; Artificial intelligence; British National Corpus; Chatbot; Dialogue; French; Lemmatised and unlemmatised lists; Machine Learning; Qur'an

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248695074     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.10.4.06sha     Document Type: Article

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