>>>>Long time ago, there was this program "Dr LISP", if I remember correctly, where you would ask questions and the program would answer with Freudian-like phrases
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>>>That'd be Eliza. I remember playing with a shorter version of it (i.e. as much as could fit in the 8K my ZX Spectrum had then). It was interesting for about ten minutes, and then you'd see it ran out of tricks pretty fast. But with a larger database and more parsing rules in it, it could stand the Touring test for several minutes.
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>>Was that the one where, being a lad, you'd ask it a rude question, like "Will you FO?" and it would reply with "I don't think I know that word, FO. Can you re-phrase (or ask another)"? I'd forgotten all about that. But Eliza certainly rings a bell.
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>http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html
>http://www.nu-woman.com/eliza.htm
>http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/books/computers-and-thought/chap2/node15.html
>http://www.geocities.com/dharwadker/knowhow/knowhow6.html

Tee-hee. I got different answers from the 1st 2. This took mne back to when I was at college firrst studying computers, talking to an ICL 1903 under Geoge II. I remember those "dungeons and dragons" text games. There was always an ugly dwarf and you were glad you'd picked up the sword, and stuff. :-)