Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity

A.L.I.C.E. ( Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity ) is a chatbot for natural language. A.L.I.C.E. was inspired by the psychotherapy program ELIZA by Joseph Weizenbaum.

A.L.I.C.E. is one of the most powerful programs of its kind and has already won three times (2000, 2001 and 2004) the Loebner Prize. However, it was A.L.I.C.E. previously could not be made ​​capable of the Turing test - even an occasional user will quickly discover the algorithmic core of the program.

The name of the program is from the first computer (also called Alice) on which it is executed.

On November 23, 1995 A.L.I.C.E. the first time presented on a public website. In 1998 the new development in Java, which ended in the current Version "Program D. " ( a C version also exists ). The program uses an XML DTD called AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language ) to specify the heuristic rules of conversation. It is under the GPL.

On ALICE Open Source Project about 300 distributed over the whole world programmers are involved. Main actor and programmers Bootstrapping is Richard Wallace.

In November 2003, were two instances of ALICE against each other. The result clearly showed the weaknesses of the program.