On Chatbot: Loebner Prize in 2005

I had heard that Loebner Prize in 2005 had been announced. It was the fifteenth annual Loebner Prize contest, Loebner Prize 2005, was held Sunday, Sept 18, 2005 in New York City.

Here are the results:

First Place - Rollo Carpenter Mean Rank 5.75
Second Place - Vladimir Veselov Mean Rank 6.00
Third Place - Steve Watkins Mean Rank 7.00
Fourth Place - Richard Wallace Mean Rank 7.25

Detailed results are at: http://loebner.net/Prizef/2005_Contest/results.html

Hugh Loebner, who was Loebner Prize Sponsor, announced three things at the contest.
1. The next contest will be held Sunday, Oct 1, 2006
2. The final four contestants, or their representative(s) must be present and supervise their entries during the contest.
3. He will award 4 stipends of USD 250 to each of the Final Four. This is to underwrite travel expenses, or to allow them to hire a local representative if they can not appear.

The session logs(transcripts) should be up by 9/20/2005.

I remembered when I studied on Artificial Intelligence, I had new some information about Loebner Prize. You could review my blog http://ir.hit.edu.cn/~bill_lang/blog10/archives/001007.html. Yeah~! It was very interesting contest. Maybe someday, we could take part in it.