2009 Loebner Prize schedule

Sponsor of the Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Hugh Loebner, announces change to the Turing tests scheduled in the 19th Contest, hosted at Interspeech 2009:

Round 1: J1E1C1, J2E3C2, J3E2C4
Round 2: J1E3C3, J2E2C1, J4E1C2
Round 3: J1E2C2, J3E1C3, J4E3C4
Round 4: J2E1C4, J3E3C1, J4E2C3


The contest will begin at 11:00 AM
There will be FOUR rounds of 20 minutes duration.

- 10 minutes for interaction with entities (5 minutes with each)
- 5 minutes for judging
- 5 minutes for rearranging seating, etc.

Message #12811 on Robitron, Aug 22, 2009.



2009 Loebner Prize 12 Turing tests final (three machine entries, four judges and four hidden-humans) will be a short contest. (2008 Loebner Prize final's featured 96 parallel-paired Turing tests held over 24 rounds, 24 judges, 21 hidden-humans and five machines).