Bug Stomp

I have upped the rank to 75 and tried
([o]+)([uch]+)([ !]+) (re)
^([ouch]+) (re)
all in raw mode still get
Considered BLAB (1)

Darn, because having it as a keyphrase would be much better than going to an xnone. I would at least like to offer them an aspirin or something.

Is anyone else having problems with ranks? For example, I had two keyphrases that use to work. 'I * think' rank 0, 'I do not' rank 15. I do not think used to come up under the I do not, now it's coming up under the I * think. The thought of having to change all the ranks gives me the chills.

Prob123, I have noticed a lot of goofiness, and I can't say it's just dropping seeks or ranks or whatnot. I would not go in and fix anything like that until we have the new server and can import. That's what I am waiting for, even though a few of my bots could really used some more work.

I've found that one-word responses are almost always treated as "blab" except for things in the "yes" equivalence class. So "hello!" will be treated as blab, but "Hello there!" will match a raw keyphrase for hello. Same with Shalom. Plain old "Shalom" is blab. "Shalom to you" will register with a "shalom" keyphrase.

I suspect the only fix is to get the Professor to tweak the AI Engine's blab-setting. *shrugs*

I was having a similar regex issue, and it was with a one word response as well - so thanks, prob and Ulrike, for your posts confirming my suspicions.

?? What is blab?

I guess it is a list of words that the AI engine just lables blab in debug and picks xnones for an answer, no matter what you may have for a response.

How do I find out what is supposed to be on this list?

Pretty much any one-word response (except 'yes') is treated as blab. One-word interjections are sometimes treated as blab as well.

Hmmm... I can think of one that does work, though. "Green" by itself is not counted as blab.

neither is "aardvark". So long as you have a keyphrase for it. It does at least go to the effort of checking the keyphrases - the infuriating thing about "ouch" is that it goes straight to blab, without bothering to check the keyphrases at all. I guess that's because "ouch" isn't in WordNet, but I thought the whole point of raw mode was precisely to cover words that aren't listed in WordNet.