EVALUATING THE EFFICACY OF A TERRORISM QUESTION/ANSWER SYSTEM.

The article evaluates the efficacy of a computerized terrorism question and answer system. The Terrorism Activity Resource Application project examined ways in which chatterbots, robotic computer programs that "talk" to human users, can be used to disseminate terrorism-related information to the gen...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 7; pp. 74 - 80
Autores principales: Schumaker, Robert P., Ying Liu, Ginsburg, Mark, Hsinchun Chen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2007
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Sumario:The article evaluates the efficacy of a computerized terrorism question and answer system. The Terrorism Activity Resource Application project examined ways in which chatterbots, robotic computer programs that "talk" to human users, can be used to disseminate terrorism-related information to the general public. Through the use of Artificial Linguistic Internet Chat Entity robots, government agencies like the United States Department of Homeland Security can educate the public and answer concerns at a low cost.