Seasons

not exactly - I can detect rhymes by tracing the letters of any word back until the last vowel is found, then use the ending starting with that vowel as a rhyme criteria. Yes, I know there will be quite a few things it will miss, but its the closest i can get with a non-supervised algorithm. Then again, are human minds supervised?

You could start with that then have a growing exceptions list.

but how would it identify exceptions without human intervention? i guess a human could point out exceptions and the necessity for that would diminish over time as it learns new exceptions.

speaking of which, ALLY is getting increasingly brighter as a result of all my positive reinforcement - too bad I can't build an online chat portal. (The program is not built for that scale of information handling - i don't know what the limits of an access database are, but i'm sure it's not more than a gigabyte)

Well, obviously the exceptions list would have to be made manually. But having the general rules would let you get started without needing a massive list right form the beginning.

Zabaware's HAL assistant comes with a full lexical dictionary, complete with definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, sisters, hypernyms, and meronyms. Perhaps a chatbot could make further use of such a dictionary (HAL only uses it to define words on request) - especially the hypernyms and hyponyms. For example, if you tell such a bot about your car, it would be able to infer that you are talking about a mode of transportaion. If you specify, saying "my ferrari is red", it can infer that you are talking about a car. This could be very useful in knowledge linking, for instance: "Human: I am going to visit my mother over the holidays." without any prior learned keyphrases, it can infer the following about who you are visiting:
mother, female parent
=> parent
=> genitor
=> progenitor, primogenitor
=> ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent
=> relative, relation
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
=> life form, organism, being, living thing
=> entity, something
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> entity, something


then, once it has picked a hypernym, for example: ancestor, it can then go ahead and choose hyponyms to become more specific: hyponyms of ancestor:

ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent
=> ancestress
=> forebear, forbear
=> forefather, father, sire
=> foremother
=> progenitor, primogenitor

perhaps a bot like this can even be made on the forge? does wordnet have these capabilities?

Merry Christmas!

merry anti-christ mas

Happy Solstice.

Nadolig llawen, ac blwyddyn newydd da!

Whats Christmas?

Happy Festivus! (for the rest of us)

Blessed Solstice!