@InProceedings{abuali-habash:2016:COLINGDEMO,
  author    = {Abu Ali, Dana  and  Habash, Nizar},
  title     = {Botta: An Arabic Dialect Chatbot},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {208--212},
  abstract  = {This paper presents BOTTA, the first Arabic dialect chatbot. We explore the
	challenges of creating a conversational agent that aims to simulate friendly
	conversations using the Egyptian Arabic dialect. We present a number of
	solutions and describe the different components of the BOTTA chatbot. The BOTTA
	database files are publicly available for researchers working on Arabic chatbot
	technologies. The BOTTA chatbot is also publicly available for any users who
	want to chat with it online.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-2044}
}