Wednesday, February 08, 2006

The Story So Far... Rollo has been the primary client for developing the Turing Hub Site. Rollo used the Turing Hub in 2005 as a training ground for his Loebner Prize Contest entry. It was much busier than earlier attempts with over 2000 turing tests completed.

I've just installed a voting system for offering polls at the end of conversations. I was using pollhost.com, but it had some inconsistencies that were bugging me, so I went looking for free alternatives and found this one.

I've drawn an information diagram for the site's future shape. What we have so far is pretty bare, and merely serves to test the various components that will eventually be required. Much like Disney World started out without Epcot Center.

Vladimir helped me with getting Eugene connected to my servlets, and Richard gave incentive to fix the ALICE interface so that it works properly now with pandorabots. I had been simply scraping a web page, but they have a nice XML setup, so that is better. I still don't have a way to make the system fallover to another bot if the one you are trying is down.

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