The AI Engine

You just make a keyphrase that uses "or" as the main keyword, with choices in the form of keys on either side of it, and rank it high enough to compensate for its naturally low rank due to the the shortness of the word "or", and the presence of any wildcards or plug-ins.

The problem is that, as far as I know, the only way to catch the question mark is with a regular expression. I tried to solve jabernaute’s problem. If you try these you will have to do all your editing offline because of the backslash characters.

Two things stopped my keyphrases from working:

I could only specify the second term:
or ([a-zA-Z]+)\\? (re)
works as expected but strangely enough
([a-zA-Z]+) or ([a-zA-Z]+)\\? (re)
does not, and the bot goes straight to xnone.
The shortcut for alphanumerical characters \\w is not recognised in this case.

Even worse: the R.E. above only catches the first word of the second term. When adding spaces to the character class the keyphrase stops working!
or ([ a-zA-Z]+)\\? (re)
makes the bot going straight to xnone.
Again, the shortcut for white spaces \\s is not recognised.

Example responses:
or ([a-zA-Z]+)\\? (re)
. . . . . I’d rather try (key1).
C: Do you prefer green dogs or blue cats?
B: I’d rather try green.
C: Shall we go to a movie or have dinner?
B: I’d rather try have.

Does somebody has a bright idea to enable bots to recognise this kind of question and do something useful with it?

I just use a wildcard after the word or, and refer to (key1) and (prekey) in the response, pretty much.

Patricia, all you have to do is make your response "I’d rather try (key1) (postkey)." That'll get it all.

Okay I have a question. I tried Initialization AIScript and copied the statement <?PF self: default "ice cream " as "favorite food"; ?> and substitued purple for ice cream and color for food and I got a error message. What did I do wrong?

Ezzer, I do this too, but it doesn’t solve Jabernaute’s problem with the question mark.

Bowchickawowers, You are right about the (postkey) but for some reason the first two words are always glued together. (the first space disappears). When I add a space between the + and the ) like "or ([a-zA-Z]+ )\? (re) " the keyphrase stops working!
or ([a-zA-Z]+)\? (re)
. . . . I’d rather try (key1) (postkey).
C: Do you like tiny geen dogs or huge blue male cats?
B: I'd rather try hugeblue male cats.

Oh well, let’s forget the whole thing. The regular expression in my previous posts doesn’t even recognise the question mark. (It works in the regex-coach program - see the link posted by Shadyman though) So I guess it is impossible at the moment.

Since we can now use wildcards in regular expressions, wouldn't it be possible to add the question mark like this?:
or (*)(?|)$ (re)
I know I have punctuation in some of my reg expression keyphrases, and it seems to work, for instance, to make the bot know the difference between "Really." and "Really?" (there's one ending in (?|), and another with (.|!|))
I'm not sure, but after messing with the punctuation, the only time I've had real success with it was when I put it in parenthesis- otherwise, I think it's interpreted as an action symbol...I knew you already know that, hence the backslash you used...but I've never gotten the backslash to work for me yet.

Hey, need a little help with a keyphrase, the following keyphrase seems to pick up on anything that starts with "I", any ideas why? The majority of Yalinas responses are the responses from the keyphrase now.

I won't|wont|will not|

It also seems to keep putting in "/" in the word won't, i.e. won/'t. It seems to accumulate them also, i.e. I checked it not long ago and it was won///'t.

Im stumped

roob, it is best not to use contractions in keyphrases, try "won\'t", works for me

that's odd, that didn't post correctly, there should be a \ between the n and '

this is weird it will not post a slash (\)