Eliza

 

 

NLP ELIZA is a natural language conversation program, based on the original Eliza described by Joseph Weizenbaum in January 1966 [1].
Originally It featured the dialog between a human user and a computer program representing a mock Rogerian psychotherapist.
It's been upgraded NLP Eliza to include more powerful questions from advanced personal development and theraupetic models. The original program was implemented on the IBM 7094 of the Project MAC time-sharing system at MIT and was written in MAD-SLIP.

This is how Joseph Weizenbaum discussed his choice for a conversation model as it would be found in psychotherapist's session: