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@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-05-07 09:59:49

With the advent of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum's first psychotherapist chatbot, NLP took another major step with pattern-based substitution algorithms based on simple regular expressions.
Weizenbaum, Joseph (1966). ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Com. of the ACM. 9: 36–45.

Slide from the Information Service Enguneering 2025 lecture slidedeck, lecture 02, Natural language processing 01, Excursion: A Brief History of NLP, NLP timeline
On the right side of the image, a historic text terminal screenshot of a starting ELIZA dialogue is depicted. The timeline in the middle of the picture (from top to bottom) indicates the year 1966. The text left of the timeline says: ELIZA was an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT A…
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2025-06-12 05:52:56

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Elena Kats‐Chernin, Jane Sheldon, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra & Ola Rudner:
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