Bug Stomp

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.

IMHO, this is something the individual programmer should be doing. Yes, some human guests use single words in lazy ways that are irritating when you read it on the transcript. There are many ways of dealing with this; let the botmaker decide! If the Prof wants to offer a system that we can choose, to use, perhaps by checking a box in "settings", that's fine.

I got this in debug

Warning: Missing argument 1 for showsen() in enginefunctions.php on line 76

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in enginefunctions.php on line 78

but debug still seemed to work.