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>From: leao@buphy0.bu.edu (Joao Leao)
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Subject: Loebner Prize Competition Transcripts 1991 #0
Keywords: Turing Test
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Encouraged by the number of people who showed interest in the
transcripts of the 1991 Loebner Prize competition thanks to Gail Jenes,
Liz Armbuster and Steve Snow of the Boston Computer Museum.

For those who don't know the Loebner Prize is awarded yearly to the
program/machine which fools the largest number of judges into believing
it is another human being. The context of dialogue is what the steering
committee (consisting of several AI-all-stars including Dan Dennett, Joe
Weizenbaum (a.k.a Feigenbaum), of Eliza fame, and Willard vanOrman
Quine(!) ) calls the "Restricted Turing Test". This means that the
subject of the conversation is established a-priori and the human judge
is not allowed to steer very obviously from it. Referees were placed
beside the judges to enforce this rulling. 

You should know that the judges (10 of them) were selected from the
pool of people who answered an add placed in a Boston paper asking
for people with particular lack of knowledge of computers. The same
was required of the "Confederates", the human placebos who were 
supposed to keep a pretty straighforward "normal" conversation.

The judges were told that there were at least 2 Programs and at
least 2 Confederates behind the 10 terminals. Two of the conversations
never started due to techical problems. 

The judges were required to move to a new terminal after about 18
minutes of conversation and the changes were draw at random. The
transcripts have the judges numbers indicated and the changes.

Lineups for the 1991 Loebner Prize competition:

Terminal 1      "Women's Clothing"             


Terminal 2      "Small Talk"                   
                                               

Terminal 3      "Second Grade School Topics"   
                                               

Terminal 4      "Shakespeare's Plays"          


Terminal 5      "Whimsical Conversation"       
                                               

Terminal 6      Out Of Service                 


Terminal 7      "Problems in Romantic          
                Relationships"                 

Terminal 8      "Burgundy Wines"               
                                               

Terminal 9      Out Of Service                 


Terminal 10     "Martinis"                     
                                               

I will post the identification of the terminals after the last
post. I do not have the final results of the Judges votes but
will try to get them from the Institute for Behavioural Studies
who sponsored the event.




-- 
Joao Pedro Leao (Artificial Iconoclast and Director of Computer Resources
Artificial Physics Lab * Boston University - Physics Dept. Boston MA 02215)
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