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*[[SHRDLU]], a natural-language interface that manipulates blocks in a virtual "blocks world"

*''Lunar'', a natural-language interface to a database containing chemical analyses of Apollo-11 moon rocks by [http://parsecraft.com/ William A. Woods].

*''Chat-80'' transformed English questions into [[Prolog]] expressions, which were evaluated against the Prolog database. The code of Chat-80 was circulated widely, and formed the basis of several other experimental Nl interfaces. An online demo is available on the LPA website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lpa.co.uk/pws_dem5.htm|title=Chat-80 demo|publisher=|accessdate=29 January 2018}}</ref>{{dead link|date=November 2018}}

*[[ELIZA]], written at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum between 1964 and 1966, mimicked a psychotherapist and was operated by processing users' responses to scripts. Using almost no information about human thought or emotion, the DOCTOR script sometimes provided a startlingly human-like interaction. An online demo is available on the LPA website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lpa.co.uk/pws_dem4.htm|title=ELIZA demo|publisher=|accessdate=29 January 2018}}</ref>{{dead link|date=November 2018}}

* ''Janus'' is also one of the few systems to support temporal questions.

* ''Intellect'' from [[Trinzic]] (formed by the merger of AICorp and Aion).