Assignment [Wareham]
Due: 11:59 PM via Brightspace on Saturday, March 4, 2023
Please read the following two papers:
- Weizenbaum, J. (1966) "ELIZA - A computer program for the study of
natural language communication between man and machine."
Communications of the ACM, 9(1), 36-45.
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- Weizenbaum, J. (1967) "Contextual understanding by computers."
Communications of the ACM, 10(8), 474-480.
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Given your reading and the course lecture notes, answer the following
questions:
- Briefly (two paragraphs max) describe the mechanisms
underlying the ELIZA chatbot system.
- Briefly (two paragraphs max) describe the
limitations wrt human-level NLP of ELIZA.
- Briefly (two paragraphs max) answer the following:
Are the limitations of ELIZA still relevant for
current state-of-the-art neural-network-based NLP systems?
If so, why? If not, why not? Include references and citations in
the answer text to these references to support your arguments.
Your answer text for these questions must be double spaced, in 12 point
Roman font, and be a maximum of 2 pages in length (not including references).
Submission
Please submit your answers as a PDF file through the course D2L /
Brightspace shell by 11:59pm on the assignment due date. This file
must have the course number, your instructor's
name, and your name and student number at the top before your answer text.
For example, my answer for this assignment would
begin with the following block:
AI 6001 (Winter 2023)
Instructor: Todd Wareham
Todd Wareham (MUN # 8008765)
- January 18, 11:30am
Assignment (Wareham) revised.
- November 14 (2022), 10:00am
Assignment (Wareham) posted.
Created: November 14, 2022
Last Modified: January 18, 2023