Notes: The Meta-Guide.com 3.0 project is concerned with creating interactive "talking books", or rather making books talk, and secondarily with dialogs generated from transcripts, screenplays, and "social media" interactions.  This involves the conversion of books, or text, into knowledge, or knowledgebases, most commonly mediated today using semantic technologies.  The challenges lie in interfacing the semantic technologies with dialog systems, and in turn with both speech and avatar technologies.

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Digital Personas {related:}

http://www.digitalpersonas.com

- Digital Personas is working on technologies for converting books into chatbots.

Evature {related:}

http://www.evature.com

- "Expert Virtual Agent (EVA), enabling free-text search for online travel"

Home Butler Creating a Virtual Home Assistant (2011) by @Alexiei Dingli and Stefan Lia (in Man-Machine Interactions 2)

- "a system which automatically creates dialogues using television series scripts"

Pandorabots SpellBinder {related:}

http://pandorabots.com/pandora/pics/spellbinder/desc.html

- Pandorabots SpellBinder is an in-house technology aimed at rapidly creating content for a pandorabot (a Pandorabots' chat bot).

- In the following video, inventor Richard Wallace presents a description of the SpellBinder algorithm for automatically generating chat bot responses from conversation transcripts.

Project Halo (HaloBook) {related:}

http://www.projecthalo.com

- Enabling Experts to Build Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks (2007) [PDF] .. A. Spaulding etc.

- AURA: Enabling Subject Matter Experts to Construct Declarative Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks (2007) [PDF] ..

HaloBook and Progress Towards Digital Aristotle David Gunning (2011)

An Introduction to Project Halo Mark Greaves (2010)

rep.licants.org {related:}

http://rep.licants.org

- rep.licants.org involves plugging one's Twitter and or Facebook into an interactive chatbot, which then supposedly re-creates a "personality" based on one's own.