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It has been said that there is something deeply touching about creating something and then having a chat with it. Machines in general, and more specifically computers, are not the exception to that tendency. In this paper, the introductory idea of considering human chat as a critically self-organized interaction is presented, being its structure pondered as the basis to modeling computer chat.

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Montero, C.A.S., Araki, K. (2005). Discovering Critically Self-Organized Chat. In: Abraham, A., Dote, Y., Furuhashi, T., Köppen, M., Ohuchi, A., Ohsawa, Y. (eds) Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32391-0_59

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