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Publication details [#58482]

Coniam, David. 2014. The linguistic accuracy of chatbots: usability from an ESL perspective. Text & Talk 34 (5) : 545–567.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This article indicates that chatbots in interaction with an English second language teacher-evaluator offer for about 90% grammatically plausible, though often meaningless, absurd answers. Future performance improvements as “conversation practice machines” are forecasted.