• Home
• The Cognitive Complexity of Language
• Computer applications
• A short history of NLP
• Digression 1: Intentionality
• Digression 2: the 'imitation game'
• ELIZA Resources on the WWW
• Cognitive Complexity (revisited)
• Syntax
• Sentence Matching
• ELIZA: how the program works
• ELIZA: Matching sentence patterns

An edited version of Chapter 4 of Computers & Thought, 1989

[Text & links last updated: 06 Oct 98]