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Book Chapters

Emotion in the Turing Test: A Downward Trend for Machines in Recent Loebner Prizes. In (Eds, Vallverdú. & D. Casacuberta): Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence. Publisher: Information Science Reference, USA, ISBN: 978-1-60566-354-8, May 2009 (With K. Warwick)

Constraining Random Dialogue in a Modern Eliza in (Ed) SCHMIDT C.T.A. (forthcoming) Essays on Computers and Philosophy: From Man Through to Artefacts to Man AAAI / MIT (With K. Warwick)

Journal Papers

Testing Turing’s five-minutes, parallel-paired imitation game. Submitted to Kybernetes journal February 2009 (With K. Warwick)

ALICE.: an ACE in Digitaland. TRIPLEC: Cognition, Communication and Co-operation - Selected Papers from the 2005 European Computing and Philosophy Conference. Vol. 4 No. 2, pp 284-292, 2006

Conference Presentations

Is Understanding over-rated? Accepted for presentation at the 2009 European Conference for Computing and Philosophy (ECAP 2009), UAB Barcelona, July 2-4, 2009 (With K. Warwick)

Can a Machine Tell a Joke? presented at the 2008 European Computing and Philosophy conference, Montpellier, France, June 16 -18, 2008 (With K. Warwick and R. Carpenter)

Turing Test: Mindless Game? – A reflection on the Loebner Prize presented at the 2007 European Computing and Philosophy conference, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 21-23, 2007 (With K. Warwick)

Chatterbox Challenge 2005: Geography of a Modern Eliza Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science – NLUCS 2006 in conjunction with ICEIS 2006, Paphos, Cyprus, ISBN: 972-8865-50-3 pp 133-138, May 2006

Text-based Dialogical E-Query Systems: Gimmick or Convenience? Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech and Computers (SPECOM), Patras, Greece ISBN: 5-7452-0110-X, Vol. II pp 425-428, October 17-19, 2005 (With V. Pavlika)

ALICE.: an ACE in Digitaland presented at the 2005 European Computing and Philosophy Conference Mälardalens, Sweden June 2 - 4, 2005

Confederate Effect in Human-Machine Textual Interaction Proceedings of 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Information Science, Communications and Applications (WSEAS ISCA), Cancun, Mexico, ISBN: 960-8457-22-X, pp 109-114, May 11– 14, 2005 (With O. Henry)