ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine
1966/01/01 by Joseph Weizenbaum · 4,287 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/365153.365168
published in Communications of the ACM 9(1), 36-45 (Association for Computing Machinery)
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