ECTOR For Linux

ECTOR is a multilingual chatterbot that is able to learn from users' entries.

ECTOR is an acronym standing for the French Entit� Cybern�tique Totalement Oblig�e de R�fl�chir (Cybernetic entity totally compelled to think). It is also a name similar to Hector, the Troyan hero, Achille's enemy. Actually, Achille killed Hector, but I hope here, they will make peace (Achille is a kind of ECTOR's ancestor, see this little story)

I want ECTOR to be an intelligent chatterbot (more intelligent than Achille, but it is likely that it will not be as impressive as Achille --in the beginning--, it has to learn many things before).

ECTOR is based on a artificial intelligence architecture, I called BAsCET (it is shown, in French, in my PhD Thesis, or on Everything2, in English), that is inspired from Copycat, an AI system from Mitchell and Hofstadter.

It is a mix between neural and semantic networks, uses agents and a blackboard. Its Concept Network uses co-occurences to compute influences of one semantic node on another.

What's New in This Release:

� Modified: nodes with a null activation are deleted from the ConceptNetworkState, but only if their age is greater than 50! That keeps the size of the ConceptNetworkState reasonable. � Modified: generation procedures (forwards and backwards) quicker. One loop erased. � Added: break recursion after 100 calls in sentence generation (forward and backward). � Modified: repetitions in the same generated sentence are limited by the length of the token to be repeated. � Added: URL treatments, one can now place an URL within a sentence, without it being considered as several small sentences.