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Record 1 2020-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Collaboration with WIPO
DEF

A type of conversation agent, a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods.

CONT

The term "chatbot" refers to a computer program configured to simulate an intelligent conversation with users via voice, images, video and/or text on an instant message basis. Such programs are sometimes referred to as artificial conversational entities ... or chatterbots. In other words, chatbots may provide users with text-to-speech and speech recognition functions such that users may interact with a chatbot similarly as in communication with a real person. The chatbot may therefore recognize a user's speech, convert it into machine-readable form, process user requests, and deliver corresponding responses as spoken language.

OBS

artificial conversational entity; ACE; chatbot; chatterbot; chat bot; chatter robot: designations validated by Canadian subject-field experts from Concordia University, Dalhousie University, Laval University and Microsoft Canada.

Key term(s)
  • chat robot
  • chatter bot
  • talk bot
  • talk robot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Internet et télématique
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

Alicia est un agent intelligent, ou [...] un agent conversationnel [...]. Il s'agit d'un avatar animé en 3D [tridimensionnel] représentant une jeune femme chargée de renseigner les créateurs d'entreprises sur les aides que peut leur apporter le département [...]

OBS

Même quand un agent conversationnel intelligent a un nom féminin ou une voix féminine, le terme reste masculin parce qu'il fait référence au concept.

OBS

robot conversationnel : désignation validée par des spécialistes canadiens de l'Université Concordia, de l'Université Dalhousie, de l'Université Laval et de Microsoft Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Internet y telemática
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

Robots conversacionales: interactividad en su máxima expresión. Los robots, susceptibles de ser programados con distintas personalidades y conocimientos, se ponen al servicio de las compañías para sustituir formas más "rudimentarias" de acceso a la información y brindar a los usuarios respuestas a sus necesidades puntuales sobre un tema concreto.

CONT

Un bot conversacional es un software que puede imitar una conversación con una persona utilizando un lenguaje natural.

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