Claim · 1966-01 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Weizenbaum (1966) describes ELIZA as a program on the MAC time-sharing system at MIT that analyses input sentences by decomposition rules triggered by key words and generates responses by reassembly rules.

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Date: 1966-01 · publication Records dated 1966 →

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ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man And Machine

Communications of the ACM; scan hosted on a Stanford course page · 1966-01

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“ELIZA is a program operating within the MAC time-sharing system at MIT which makes certain kinds of natural language conversation between man and computer possible. Input sentences are analyzed on the basis of decomposition rules which are triggered by key words appearing in the input text.”

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Authors: Joseph Weizenbaum
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 3b18ed3ebf7c28670c215709e778c9b339055fb225b0286796bd0767197be041). Scan of the CACM printing (vol. 9, no. 1, p. 36 onward) with an OCR text layer that is noisy in places; hosted at web.stanford.edu/class/linguist238
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Language: English (en)
Attribution: Joseph Weizenbaum, “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man And Machine”, 1966-01.
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