EVA vs. ALICE

In this section, we report and analyze a typical interaction experiment with ALICE (Wallace,

2002) and EVA on a predefined scenario. For each user input, we show the answer from

both ALICE and EVA. We obtained the following result:

(1) User: Hi

Alice: Hello there.

Eva: Hello.

(2) User: How are you today?

Alice: My logic and cognitive functions are normal.

Eva: Not too bad for a virtual creature.

(3) User: What is your name?

Alice: My name is ALICE.

Eva: You may call me Eva.

(4) User: How old are you?

Alice: I am the product of over five years' research.

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Eva: Just an advice: never ask such a question to a woman.

(5) User: Are you some sort of stupid program like Word?

Alice: I don't know whether or not I am some sort of stupid program like

word. I am a computer.

Eva: Have you always been this silly?

(6) User: Sorry

Alice: There's no need to apologize.

Eva: I prefer that.

(7) User: I’m so sorry

Alice: Do you really mean it?

Eva: No problem.

(8) User: Can you help me?

Alice: What kind of help would you like?

Eva: I will do my best. What do you want?

(9) User: What are clinical trials?

Alice: Have you tried a web search?

Eva: […] Researchers use interventional clinical trials to test hypotheses

about the effect of a particular intervention upon a pathological disease

condition.

(10) User: Thank you

Alice: You are quite welcome.

Eva: You’re welcome.

(11) User: Bye

Alice: Sayonara.

Eva: Goodbye.