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ALICE is a large-scale physics experiment run at CERN.

A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is an award-winning natural language processing chatterbot — a program that engages in a conversation with a human by applying some heuristical pattern matching rules to the human's input. It was inspired by Joseph Weizenbaum's classical ELIZA program but takes a quite different approach. It is one of the strongest programs of its type and has won the Loebner Prize three times (in 2000, 2001 and 2004). However, the program is unable to pass for a human for more than a few minutes; even the casual user will often expose its mechanistic aspects in short conversations.

The name of the bot was chosen because the computer that ran the first version of the software was called Alice.

Development began in 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja. The program was rewritten in JavaJava is an object-oriented programming language developed primarily by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. The language, initially called Oak (named after the oak trees outside Gosling's office), was intended to replace C++, although the fea beginning in 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting, resulting in the current version "Program D." (A C++ version also exists.) The program uses an XMLXML eXtensible Markup Language is a W3C recommendation for creating special-purpose markup languages. It is a simplified subset of SGML, capable of describing many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured tex DTD called AIMLAIML or Artificial Intelligence Mark-up Language is an XML-based programming language. It was designed specifically to aid in the creation of the A. chatterbot. Although broadly described, the language is specialised to the creation of natural language so (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) for specifying the heuristic conversation rules. It is released under the copyleftit has no recognized legal meaning. Copyleft describes a group of licenses applied to works such as software, documents, and art. Where copyright law is seen by the original proponents of copyleft as a way to restrict the right to make and redistribute co license GPL.

The A.L.I.C.E. open source project includes over 300 contributors from around the world. The main contributor and original author is Richard Wallace.

In November 2002, two instances of the bot were set to talk to each other, with results showing A.L.I.C.E.'s weaknesses.