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Based on some comments on the webyantra post (btw i thank Amit Ranjan for writing about Ala) around

Ala being a copy of existing applications.Let me try to put this to rest. Yes the concept came from ALICE, we never boasted it was an original

BUT we have taken it ahead and added functionalities which have not been done before.

To all chaps who diss the product - at least wait for it be launched.

Constructive criticism is welcome and much appreciated.

Throw stuff at us which helps, adds to Ala brains, gives us ideas but please

donot undermine it just for the sake of commenting on a site.

A Original idea!!

Hi this is Gaurav , Chief Architect of Alabot , I want to add few words what Akshat mentioned above

1) Saying that alabot copy of ALICE , is just same as ALICE is copy of ELIZA but without looking their engine (parsers , algorithm etc) anybody can say so but look deeper you wont say . ALICE is academic like other similar its ultimate aim is to pass turner test , its answers are human like but may not be relevant also it only answers what its already in database

look at samples below

Human: how will be weather today ?
ALICE: Ah. A lot of practise.
Human: whats the stock prize of microsoft ?
ALICE: Is there only one?
Human: where is mount fuji ?
ALICE: Where it is hard to find. There might be more than one.Â

2) Alabot  engine is totally different from Alice ,we don’t use AIML! . We realized human conversation are dynamic and you can’t have generic statements to give relevant replies , Also you need to take decisions (does customer qualifies for discount ) . How we can do it ?Its no easy task ! Ala algorithm custom solution which consist of rule engine , NLP engine and parser , helper API hooks etc and we are frequently update it .

3) Ala was designed to work as Rapid Application development platform , one can put all business rules and configure NLP and ponetic engine and you can application running in matter matter days or few weeks in all connected mediums IM (yahoo ,gtalk, msn,ICQ,AOL,IRC,Gadu Gadu, Skype) Web (thru web client ), Mobile /Smart phone (GPRS/SMS)

I appreciate responsible comments / suggestion / feedback , i guess better to ignore irresponsible ones in order save everybody time !!

http://www.webyantra.net/2007/09/07/alabotai-nlp-enabled-automated-interactive-agent-for-your-portal/

The team has been working on creating Ala for the past 2 years. We started off with an idea of creating something which is not run of the mill and specially not a copy of something out there.

Its now time for Ala to be launched on the web / mobile and as an enterprise application.

Watch this space!!!