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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

 

Red-Letter Day for Celia Gray

I began as a bot scripter in July 2003.

My startup ALICE files:
* Dr. Wallace's March 2002 ALICE
* Standard-AIML std-dictionary file
* AAA's Psychology file
* AAA's Badanswer file
These total about 5.85 MB.

If 1.2 KB reads as 1 page in MS Word, with:
* .5" margins
* 2 line breaks between categories
* Times New Roman/12 pt. type
Then 5.85 MB equals approximately 4,875 pp.

Add to this:
* The base for Celia's taxonomy file, from an article by Dr. Wallace
* Other miscellany
And you get about 5,000 pages of source files.

Today, at 3 pm EST, I finished reading through this entire 5,000-pp. corpus.
For almost 3.5 years I have been reading, correcting, revising, editing, deleting, composing and adding, learning, extrapolating and more. Celia Gray is now fully herself: a virtual human character.

Next phase: Targeting a stack of chat transcripts several inches thick.

posted at 4:53 PM
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