Novel chatterbot system utilizing BBS information for estimating user interests

Abstract

Recently, the use of various chatterbots has been proposed to simulate conversation with human users. Several chatterbots can talk with users very well without a high-level contextual understanding.However, it may be difficult for chatterbots to reply to specific and interesting sentences because chatterbots lack intelligence. To solve this problem, we propose a novel chatterbot that can directly use Bulletin Board System (BBS) information in order to estimate user's interests. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.