Nearly Intelligent Computer Operated Language Examiner
NICOLE is a theory or experiment that if a computer is given enough combinations of how words, phrases and sentences are related to one another, it could talk back to you.

The development of NICOLE is currently hosted at Sourceforge. This is a great site which makes it very easy to develop applications with many people. Alot of the information on this site is snipped from there, so to get the latest info it is probably better to go to their site.

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News: 2000-08-21 Documentation
I've started on the long road to get some decent documentation going for NICOLE. You will find most of it in the document pages, however most of it would be aimed at developers and who are interested in how NICOLE works at a source code level. I will be however updating the 'user' documentation later on. Stay tuned!

2000-08-20 I'm back
Yes, I have been away down in Sydney (personal family reasons) so NICOLE has been rather neglected as of late. I'm aiming for a new release in the next week or so, and all being well, it will be a STABLE release.

2000-07-31 Release 0.1.6
I've released 0.1.6 in the hope that once the bugs are sorted out, and that I've written a manual for NICOLE, I can release 0.2.0

What we need to do is build up a starting knowledge base so that everyone can use a 'base' database to expand their own knowledge bases.

0.1.6 has a few new utilities, namely exportdb and importdb. These allow to exchange databases with other people. :)

2000-07-13 Release 0.1.5
Hi there again,

I've just released a development version of NICOLE. While this is still a development version, it is quite stable and could almost pass off as a stable one.

The main reason I have released this version is to accelerate the growth of the knowledge base. For a while now, NICOLE has been logging its conversations into a text file at /tmp/history.txt

This file records the conversation threads in NICOLE. You can then email this file to other NICOLE users, who can then 'learn' this file into their own database.

I intent to create a master copy of a 'learn' text file so that users can import a common database, if they wish to.

So the next time you install and setup NICOLE. Remove any existing /tmp/history.txt files, and start communicating with NICOLE. Send the new /tmp/history.txt file either to myself (pghowlett@ozemail.com.au) or other users of NICOLE.

Hopefully we can get a master knowledge base happening.

Cheers,

Phil.

2000-07-09 Release 0.1.4
I've released 0.1.4. This is a development release only and could be quite unstable.

2000-07-03 Release 0.1.2
I've just released 0.1.2 of NICOLE.

While this isn't a major release, mainly bug fixes and a few extra features.

You will have to reset your database if you are upgrading (use the /ERASE ME command inside nicole once you have compiled)

The main reason for this release is that I've written a 'learn' utility. This utility makes it easier to import a conversation into nicole (it works kinda like the old 'import' utility).

I haven't had the time yet to write up any decent documentation for it (volunteers anyone?) but it basically works like this.

You create a text file (there is a sample.txt file provided with this new release). Each line of the text file is a single sentence, each line follows the previous sentence. It is kinda like having a conversation with yourself. If you wish to start a new conversation then create a line with three (3) dashes (---). You can have a look at the sample.txt file, or you can always email me.

What I would like to see is people creating their own 'conversation' text files that we can swap around and have our own copies of NICOLE 'learn' from others.

Eventually, I would like to compile a large text file to import into NICOLE so that there is a standard base, if people wish it.

Anyway, have fun playing with 0.1.2


Mailing Lists: There are currently 3 mailing lists for NICOLE. Feel free to subscribe to any of them

NICOLE-announce

General announcements and new release information.
NICOLE-devel

Current development information and discussions.
NICOLE-users

General mailing list for the users of NICOLE


Support: If you require any support or assistance then please log a support request on the sourceforge site and someone will be able to help you as soon as they can.

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Phil Howlett
20th August 2000