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Eric Atwell
Researcher at University of Leeds
Publications - 239
Citations - 3513
Eric Atwell is an academic researcher from University of Leeds. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corpus linguistics & Natural language. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 234 publications receiving 3229 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric Atwell include University of Jordan & Lancaster University.
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The design of a corpus of Contemporary Arabic
Latifa Al-Sulaiti,Eric Atwell +1 more
TL;DR: The survey of the needs of teachers of Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) and language engineers shows that a wide range of text types should be included in the corpus, confirming the view that existing corpora are too narrowly limited in source-type and genre.
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Different measurement metrics to evaluate a chatbot system
Bayan Abu Shawar,Eric Atwell +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigates methods to train and adapt a chatbot to a specific user's language use or application, via a user-supplied training corpus, and advocates open-ended trials by real users, such as an example Afrikaans chatbot for Afrikaan-speaking researchers and students in South Africa.
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Using corpora in machine-learning chatbot systems
Bayan Abu Shawar,Eric Atwell +1 more
TL;DR: A program to learn from spoken transcripts of the Dialogue Diversity Corpus of English, the Minnesota French Corpus, the Corpus of Spoken Afrikaans, the Qur’an Arabic-English parallel corpus, and the British National Corpus ofEnglish is presented.
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ALICE Chatbot: Trials and Outputs
Bayan AbuShawar,Eric Atwell +1 more
TL;DR: An overview of ALICE chatbot, its AIML format, and experiments to generate different prototypes ofALICE automatically based on a corpus approach are presented, which revealed the possibility of generating useful prototypes without the need for sophisticated natural language processing or complex machine learning techniques.