The Rise of Bots – Talk at GeoBeer #15, March 2017

The Rise of Bots

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of Bots@rastrau at GeoBeer #15

02.05.2023 | The Rise of Bots – GeoBeer #15


Bots, Holzöpfel und Zipfelchappe! © Marco Sieber, @opendatazurich

Bot = a computer program that is – persistent, – autonomous, and – reactive




persistent, adj.beständig




persistent, adj.beständig, hartnäckig


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«Taxonomy is apain in the butt.

Yet, in order to get a grasp on things,

we should really dig into it.»

– Charley Darwin


Tsvetkova, García-Gavilanes, Floridi & Yasseri (2017) «Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia» (Open Access)



don’t (usually)

interact directly

with humans



don’t (usually)

interact directly

with humans

do interact: written, spoken, …


Syntax-based Colloquial languageSemi-structured



«show train –next»



«show train –next» «When’s the nextt depaarture?»




fault-tolerant, NLP-enabled true bot




fault-tolerant, NLP-enabled true bot

a glorified command line in-the-cloud


@TeletextCH@wheretheheck_chTrainDelayBot.ch«Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia»: http://journals.plos.org


@TeletextCH@wheretheheck_chTrainDelayBot.ch«Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia»: http://journals.plos.org

not a bot: @geobeerch

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