The following papers have been written by people throughout the world on the topic of Chatterbots and the Natural Language Processing Techniques that go into them. They are not part of The Simon Laven Page and at all times remain the property of their respective authors.

Colorful Personalities, dialogues with early chatterbots - namely Eliza, Parry and Racter. Chat transcipts include 'Eliza and a young woman' as well as 'Eliza and Parry'.

Computing Machinery And Intelligence, By Alan Turing. First published in Mind back in October 1950, this amazing article, written by the father of Artificial Intelligence, is still ahead of it's time.

Conversational Hypertext Access Technology, by Thom Whalen. CHAT provides a natural-language interface that allows users to ask English questions and receive answers. Located in the Complex Chatterbot section, this paper provides a more detailed introduction.

Cybercinema, from the Department of English at the University of Illinois. More of a reference than a paper, devoted to the history of Artificial Intelligence in Film. Going from Forbidden Planet, to 2001, to Blade Runner, to Short Circuit, you get the idea.

From Sentence Processing to Information Access on the World Wide Web, by Boris Katz. Describing the START Information Server built at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Available on the World Wide Web since December 1993, the START Server provides users with access to multi-media information in response to questions formulated in English.

How I Lost the Contest and Re-Evaluated Humanity, by Thom Whalen at the Communications Research Centre in Canada. The leader of the team behind Chat and Tips, this is his experience of the 1995 Loebner Prize.

The Loebner Prize, a resource of Turing Test related material - including transcripts and analysis of previous Loebner competitions.

Recruiting The Chatterbots: How Virtual Agents Make the Web More Human, by Michael Leaverton. Cuts through the hype and explains the realistic possibilities of chatterbot technology.

The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion, by Stevan Harnad. An interesting reminder of how well one can fool someone in a competition such as the Loebner Prize is not a measure of scientific progress.