Inventing ELIZA (Review)

This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum&rsquo;s article &ldquo;ELIZA&mdash;A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine&rdquo;. ELIZA was a natural language &ldquo;engine&rdquo; for running scripts of various conversational personas. The DOCTOR script became the paradigmatic example of a chatbot and ELIZA was re-implemented many times. A…