The AI Engine

Maybe this has been asked before, but I'm new. Is there any way to use a punctuation mark to end a key phrase?
I'd like to have an answer for "what are you?" and a different one for "what are you (subj) ?" (ie what are you doing, what are you reading)

No, punctuation can not be used in key phrases

Just make keyphrases for 'what are you doing' and other specific things. Yes, it takes longer to do it that way, but it works.

and don't forget the rankings! they are really important for distinguishing
do you
do you think
do you think about
because the last one should have a higher ranking than the one before, so the 'about' gets picked up, etc... I originally didn't understand the ranking system and ignored it, to my dismay of having to change every single ranking later on...

My hint, if you don't understand it:
the engine starts from the highest rank and tries to find a match for the phrase. If nothing is found, it goes down to the next rank. etc.

But longer phrases get picked before shorter phrases containing the same words anyway.

...but have to be exactly in the same order...

...and shadyman is right, "the" with 20, gets picked over "the man" with 5...

lol. thanks, all. I was just being lazy, but I guess its time to sit down and make keyphrases for everything.

Same here..

another question:

guest: fine. do you like canteloup?
my bot: Of course I like can noteloup.
guest: what is noteloup?

it should have been "of course I like (subj)."
why did it perceive "cant"eloup as a verb that needed to be changed?

it's supposed to be a subroutine that catches 'cant' as opposed to 'can't' to turn it in to can not for proper preprocessing. If you know that, it's really quite funny... cant gets changed into can not, so I guess canteloup got changed into can noteloup hehehe

*giggle*