Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: International research in NLP is dominated by work on English. NLP techniques and \nsystems can be ported to other natural languages, but this is generally a labour-intensive task, \nrequiring scarce computational and linguistic expertise; hence minority languages are poorly \nrepresented in NLP technology. We present an automated approach to porting an NLP \ntechnology, the AIML-based chatbot, to new languages, by using a corpus in the target language \nto retrain the chatbot. We have successfully automated production of chatbots talking French, \nand Afrikaans; and are developing further demonstrators in Spanish and Arabic.
Authors: Bayan Abu Shawar, Eric Atwell
Institution: University of Leeds
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2162982814