eliza
eliza Lexical Profile
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• noun
A female given name, originally a diminutive of Elizabeth.
"They decided to name their newborn daughter Eliza after her great-grandmother."
An early natural language processing computer program created in the mid-1960s at MIT (often stylized as ELIZA) that simulated conversation with a Rogerian psychotherapist using pattern matching, or any simple conversational chatbot modeled on it.
"Early experiments in human-computer interaction showed that users readily confided in the ELIZA program despite knowing it was a simple script."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Originating in the 16th century as a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth, which derives via Greek and Latin from the Hebrew Elisheva, meaning 'my God is an oath.' The computing sense (usually capitalized as ELIZA) was named by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966 after Eliza Doolittle, the working-class character taught to speak like an aristocrat in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.
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