IRC & Chatbots

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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a type of real-time internet chat system that allows users to communicate with each other through text-based messages. IRC bots are computer programs that are designed to participate in IRC conversations and perform a variety of tasks, such as responding to user commands and performing automated tasks.

Although IRC bots are sometimes referred to as chatbots, they are generally more limited in their ability to engage in natural language conversation compared to chatbots that are designed for social media platforms or virtual assistants. IRC bots are often referred to as “do-engines” because they are designed to perform specific tasks or actions in response to user commands, rather than engage in more open-ended conversation.

One common use of IRC bots is in file sharing, where IRC bots can be used to share files with other users. XDCC is a protocol that is used to transfer files over IRC, and it is often associated with IRC bots that are used for file sharing.

There are also a number of IRC bots that are designed to interact with other social media platforms, such as Twitter. These bots can be used to bridge the gap between IRC and other platforms, allowing users to interact with each other across platforms in real-time.

A chat log is a record of a chat or conversation that has taken place, typically in the form of a text file or transcript. Chat logs can be used to document conversations for a variety of purposes, such as for reference, analysis, or archiving. The term “chat log” can also be used as a verb, as in “to chat log,” meaning to record a chat or conversation.

Chat logs can be created manually by transcribing a conversation, or they can be generated automatically by chat software or other systems that are designed to record and store conversations. Chat logs can include both the text of the conversation as well as other information, such as the date and time of the conversation, the participants in the conversation, and any additional metadata.

Chat logs are often referred to as “chatlogs,” with the term “chatlog” used as a singular or plural noun.

  • Interaction mining is a process of analyzing and extracting information from interactions between people or systems. It involves using techniques from data mining and natural language processing to analyze large amounts of data from interactions, such as chat logs or customer service transcripts, and identify patterns, trends, and insights that can be used to improve customer experiences, identify customer needs and preferences, or optimize business processes. Interaction mining can be used in a variety of applications, including customer service, market research, and business intelligence.

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Hackerbot: Attacker Chatbots for Randomised and Interactive Security Labs, Using SecGen and oVirt
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… The famous first iteration of a “chatbot” in conversation is ELIZA [42], which allowed very basic … online bot automation [32] noted the early use of “(ro)bots” in Internet-Relay-Chat channels to … built on the same IRC technology and can be accessed with standard IRC code packages …

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… For example, chatbots [103] can be used to help students to answer their day-to-day queries and the bots which are … Basically, the main purpose of botnets was to assist the users in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chat rooms [47] by controlling the interactions, providing help to …

A social practice oriented signs detection for human-humanoid interaction
A Augello, F Dignum, M Gentile, I Infantino… – Biologically inspired …, 2018 – Elsevier
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Watch me play: Twitch and the rise of game live streaming
TL Taylor – 2018 – books.google.com
… On our screens, alongside the video piping out from Paris, a chat stream (an old-school Internet Relay Chat [IRC] channel) flowed by with hundreds of people talking to each other about the event, and cheering through text and emoticons …

Time collapse in social media: Extending the context collapse
PB Brandtzaeg, M Lüders – Social Media+ Society, 2018 – journals.sagepub.com
Context collapse, or the flattening of multiple audiences into a single context, has been an important notion in research on privacy experiences, self-performan…

Diversity, Identification, and Rhetoric in Tech: On the Analysis of Satirical Conference Talks
B Knowles – 2018 – digitalcommons.wku.edu
… connections with the terrorists in the 2015 Paris attacks [28]. March the next year, Microsoft released a chat bot on Twitter that was intended to learn its speech patterns from those that interact with it; within a day, the bot had …

Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa
HA Ritchie – cfia.nl
… the development of online data analytic systems such as Refugee Text that streamlines refugee profiles and information, a ‘chatbot management system (CMS)’ for humanitarian organizations (Howden, 2016). Several organizations …

Automating the anonymisation of textual corpora
L García Sardiña – 2018 – addi.ehu.eus
Page 1. Automating the Anonymisation of Textual Corpora Author: Laura Garc´?a Sardi˜na Advisors: Arantza del Pozo and Izaskun Aldezabal hap/lap Hizkuntzaren Azterketa eta Prozesamendua Language Analysis and Processing Final Thesis September 2018 …

Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media
T Gillespie – 2018 – books.google.com
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Identifying Author Topic Stance in Online Discussion Forums
G Patterson – 2018 – escholarship.org
… both sides of an issue. It could also be used to learn the linguistic and rhetorical devices that make for successful persuasive arguments, or the expressions of disagreement, which could then be used in other dialog systems or chatbots. Furthermore, this methodology …