The AI Engine

I'm new so don't take my word for it but i would try using regular expressions as covering in the expert area in the book of AI. Something like "what\?? (re)" i believe would make the keyphrase have to be "what?". That would give you room to deal with the other question however you see fit without it calling upon "what?" i think. Again i'm new at this so i could be wrong.

I tried that, doesn't work.

Basically what I have now is "what" as a keyword with "what does", "what is," "i know what," etc. as higher ranked keywords. It doesn't really work well, there are far too many combinations to cover.

Anyone else?

erm sorry i got to thinking and i seemed to forget that ? couldnt be in keywords. so then i slapped myself silly...Anyhow the answer is still regular expressions but instead try "^what? (re)" i tested this on my bot that has a few "what...." question keywords and it seems to work. This basicly searches for the word "what" at the start of a sentence, But does not allow more then 1 other t beyond the what...so basicly it only allows "what" or "whatt". If i understand it right that is. Hope i managed to help this time.

to make "what would you like" pull up separate responses for just "what" alone, you give "what" a really low rank, and make a new keyphrase for "what would you like".

I think there is also a reg-exp character that means "the end of the sentence" -- which you could put after "what," to frame it (and the punctuation) as the only things in the keyphrase. Regular expressions are definitely your answer, Boner, but I don't know enough about them yet to give you concrete advice.

If there is something to put in a reg expression that signifies nothing after the given words, I sure do need it! Can you put the ^ sign at the end, too?

The dollar sign ($) should work as end of expression marker.

Joe Repka: Excellllent...thanks so much.

^is start and as joe pointed out $ is end...there are a bunch of other little things you can do with reg expressions. Sorry about stumbling with the answer boner but it was late and i was getting frustrated with my own bot.

Question: ok, I have the keyphrase "how old are you" programmed for my bot. When someone asked him "I was wondering, how old are you?" he wouldn't answer. I didn't program the keyphrase as a regular expression, and I don't understand what's wrong. Someone help me!!!

How much importance did you give the phrase "how old are you?" If everything else is equal, I'm pretty sure the bot will look at the first part of the sentence as the most important. You'd have to have "how old are you" weighted enough for the bot to look at that part first.