The problems are mostly fixed now. Heres a link to download it Release version mirror (ReleaseA for v1.00) Its a really nice little chatbot/infobot. Please enjoy it, and post about it! From, Nice coder [Edited by - Nice Coder on April 17, 2005 5:03:56 AM]

ok. i've still got little idea on how to do it...

If i have a statement
"My dog eats dog food"

How can i figure out how to parse it, without a verb dictionary?

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Quote: Original post by Nice Coder
If i have a statement
"My dog eats dog food"

How can i figure out how to parse it, without a verb dictionary?

You can't. Otherwise how would your chatbot know the difference between verbs, nouns, adjectives, determinatives, etc.?

Quote: Original post by lucky_monkey

Quote: Original post by Nice Coder
If i have a statement
"My dog eats dog food"

How can i figure out how to parse it, without a verb dictionary?

You can't. Otherwise how would your chatbot know the difference between verbs, nouns, adjectives, determinatives, etc.?

My problem is that it would require me to go and add a dictionary to my chatbot.

The way that i was thinking was to look for the s at the end of the verb.

for eg.
My dog eats dog food.

But not for this.

My dogs eat dog food.

So, for plurals it doesn't work too well.

[sad]

But then again, with a or the, we can figure it out. (not for my tho).

My dog's name is puppy
Theres a my, then the subject(?), then theproperty, the assignment operator, then the rhs.

Maybe something similar?


How many verbs/nouns are there?

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Maybe making a varient of english is in order?

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Nice coder

Quote: Original post by Nice Coder
My problem is that it would require me to go and add a dictionary to my chatbot.

The way that i was thinking was to look for the s at the end of the verb.

for eg.
My dog eats dog food.

But not for this.

My dogs eat dog food.

So, for plurals it doesn't work too well.

[sad]

But then again, with a or the, we can figure it out. (not for my tho).

My dog's name is puppy
Theres a my, then the subject(?), then theproperty, the assignment operator, then the rhs.

Maybe something similar?

This requires the use of a prescriptive grammar. It would be very hard to create a chatbot any other way, but inferring the part of speech of a word from a prescriptive grammar still requires a dictionary of some kind. The main use of inference would be to recognise proper nouns, since there are an infinite number of possible names.

Quote: Original post by Nice Coder
How many verbs/nouns are there?

Lots. Luckily there are resources available (e.g. Princeton's WordNet (which I don't know that much about)).

ok, i modified maximatch, and now it works properly. (at least most of the time).

:-)

I'm pretty sure i can knock up a version for you to try.....
Does anybody want a try?

It currently has:
1. Maximatch - This lets it figure out the gists of things, rather then doing complex semantic searches, or anything like that.
2. A Thesorus - This lets it seems smarter, because it uses different words.
3. Humaistic typing - It makes typing mistakes, and you can see it type.
I could probably do a bit more with it. (ie. Get it to delay after tying your message, for a random piriod of time, so that it looks like its figuring out a responce)

Reiterating: Does anybody want a chat with it?

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Thanks luckymonkey (what a coincidence!)

Me == Reading.

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Nice coder

Me = Read.

Its a little lacking in the information front tho....

But i did find this Which is very interesting.

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Nice coder

ok. Somebody's been using that site a little too much.... (Bandwith exceded).

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