Which sources I can use to make the bots brain file?
You can use all sources: books, movies, newspapers, magazines etc. Especially watch tv soap operas and copy the funny dialogs. The brightest dialogs are betwen men and women in soap operas – best examples for deliberate misunderstandings – and a good idea in what way a chatter bot is working. Therefore one of the best sources are movie scripts (you can get it from several sources around the net, and there are some servers as well, which are specialized on collecting movie scripts), because you simply can copy and paste the best sentences. Jason Hutchens for instance used for his victorious chatterbots HeX and MegaHAL following sources: – Hand-crafted sentences designed in order to create a personality for MegaHAL, including sentences containing a false name, age and occupation. – Encyclopaedic information taken from the Web, on topics such as geography, music, sports, movies and history. – A selection of sentences picked from transcripts of previous Loebner contests. – Lines of dialogu
