(2015-04-18) Acuman Chatbot

The ACUMAN ChatBot won "best new bot" at the latest Chatter Box Challenge (Turing Test).

It was built was 14yo Sean Le Van, who also plays the piano.

*The syntax of the ACUMANSCRIPT markup language is actually more similar to XML (or, in the AI field, AIML) due to its rigid structure. It's fundamentally based on pattern matching akin to regex. However, the backend processing which alters ACUMANSCRIPT and processes the individual data is what makes it unique.

The knowledge base used for the Named-entity recognition for the processing of ACUMANSCRIPT is WikiMedia and Wolfram Alpha, used in conjunction.

It is all processed in the backend using PHP.*