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cECTOR v0.1.3 released!

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in C,
and able to learn from users' entries.

This release contains many small improvements, such
as bugfixes and optimizations.
An URL can now be contained in a phrase, since URLs
are no longer split into several small phrases.

Repetitions have been reduced, as they are now limited
by the length of the repeated piece.
Infinite recursion has been eliminated.... read more

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2005-07-19

cECTOR v0.1.2 released!

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in C,
and able to learn from users' entries.

This release fixes a bad behaviour: no more than 5 nodes
(words or expressions to be simple) present in the same
generated sentence. Thus, no more infinite loops, that
sometimes happened.
There is also a new option, to make the bot log the
dialog: -l logfilename

To compile, you need an UNIX-like OS, and DILIB
(http://dilib.inist.fr/). ... read more

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2005-06-14

cECTOR v0.1.1 released!

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in C,
and able to learn from users' entries.

This release produces really answers, and no more only
reformulation of user's entry.

To compile, you need an UNIX-like OS, and DILIB
(http://dilib.inist.fr/).

To execute the Windows Binary, you need to put the
cygwin1.dll in the path (or in the same directory).

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2005-05-21

cECTOR v0.1.0 released!

cECTOR is a learning chatterbot, written in C,
and able to learn from users' entries.

This release is a new subversion (0.1), because it is much faster than subversion 0.0.

To compile, you need an UNIX-like OS, and DILIB
(http://dilib.inist.fr/).

On Windows, put cygwin1.dll in the same directory as the executable.

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2005-04-04

cECTOR v0.0.21 released!

cECTOR is a learning chatterbot, written in C (translated from the PHP ECTOR version),
and able to learn from users' entries.

This release is able to use well-formed sentences instead of generated ones. At least, it uses sentences already given by user(s), which should be better formed than generated ones.

The entries are now cleaner (better integrated into the bot's model).

To compile, you need an UNIX-like OS, and DILIB
(http://dilib.inist.fr/). ... read more

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2004-12-29

cECTOR v0.0.20 released!

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in C,
and able to learn from users' entries.

This release is now able to read a file, without
replying to it (thus taking much time). There is much
work to do to improve quickness (but it is quicker
than PHP version). Many optimizations foreseen.

To compile, you need an UNIX-like OS, and DILIB
(http://dilib.inist.fr/).

If you don't want to install DILIB, and you are under
Linux, you just have to gunzip ctor-0.0.20-linuxbin.gz
and execute it.... read more

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2004-01-14

First cECTOR version released!

cECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in C,
and able to learn from users' entries.

This release (v0.0.19) is the first public one on
SourceForge (and the first one to reply). There is
much work to do to improve quickness (but it is
quicker than PHP version). Many optimizations
foreseen.

To compile, you need an UNIX-like OS, and DILIB
(http://dilib.inist.fr/).

ector-0.0.19-winbin.zip is an executable for dos.
Simply unzip in an empty directory and double-click.... read more

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2003-12-23

ECTOR v0.1.7 Released

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in
PHP/MySQL, and able to learn from users' entries.

This release fixes some bugs (in tables creation and
in E_MEMORY_STORAGE mode), and improves
ECTOR responses a bit.

It is written in PHP/MySQL and is an early prototype.
Many things still to do, but it is usable.
Although it is not required, it is better to install
phpLang which is available at
http://www.phpheaven.net/rubrique7.html
(all messages are much more readable with it).

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2003-04-21

ECTOR v0.1.6 Released

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in PHP/MySQL, and able to learn from users' entries.

This release is mainly a bug fix: the table creation script was not complete.

It is written in PHP/MySQL and is an early prototype.
Many things still to do, but it is usable.
You need phpLang which is available at http://www.phpheaven.net/rubrique7.html (although phpLang is not required, all messages are much more readable with it).

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2003-04-13

ECTOR v0.1.5 Released

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in PHP/MySQL, and able to learn from users' entries.

This release introduces a better handling of entries, that will lead to a better sentence generation (whe you start again your e_node and e_link MySQL tables).
It also removes some cases where ECTOR did not answer.

It is written in PHP/MySQL and is an early prototype.
Many things still to do, but it is usable.
You need phpLang which is available at http://www.phpheaven.net/rubrique7.html

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2003-03-19

ECTOR v0.1.4 Released

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in PHP/MySQL, and able to learn from users' entries.

This release is quicker than the previous MySQL-based one.
Beware: this is still in an experimental state!

It is written in PHP/MySQL and is an early prototype.
Many things still to do, but it is usable.
You need phpLang which is available at http://www.phpheaven.net/rubrique7.html

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2003-03-12

ECTOR v0.1.3 Released

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in PHP/MySQL, and able to learn from users' entries.

This release can be much quicker, when used on a local web server (or on a server which configuration allow PHP processes to use much more than 4 MB of RAM).

It is written in PHP/MySQL and is an early prototype.
Many things still to do, but it is usable.
You need phpLang which is available at http://www.phpheaven.net/rubrique7.html

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2003-03-03

ECTOR v0.1.1 Released

ECTOR is a multilingual web chatterbot, written in PHP/MySQL, and able to learn from users' entries.

It is written in PHP/MySQL and is an early prototype.
Many things still to do, but it is usable.
You need phpLang which is available at http://www.phpheaven.net/rubrique7.html

Posted by François PARMENTIER 2003-02-22
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