The AI Engine

You know how the bots were responding to themselves awhile ago? Well, I was thinking that would be a great feature for questions that get asked back to the bot in an incomplete way. Ex:

Bot: How are you?
Human: I'm great. You?

At this point in the conversation, it would be handy for the bot to respond to itself!

Cool idea! That would be great...

I think there's actually some preprocessing that handles "And you?" -- I've seen Simulo handle it quite adeptly in the past, much to my surprise.

Or you could just do a seek for those responses.

There is definitely some kind of preprocessing that handles it, like Isaacc says, because Osiris responds to phrases such as:

Human: You like football?

as 'do you like' and selects the appropriate responses from the list for that keyphrase.

I have a question about preprocessing, actually. I know it lengthens contractions like "can't" to "cannot" and "don't" to "do not" but what does it do about possessive apostrophes? In other words, can it determine between "Sheila's cool" and "Sheila's coat" or would it lengthen the latter to "Sheila is coat"? Can you have words like "sheila's" in keyphrases?

Actually it changes sheila's cool into "she I la is cool"

Laydee & Isaacc- You're right! There is that preprocessing that adds "do you" as needed to the beginning of phrases. But I looked in debug and it does attach the previous sentence to it too when there's that hanging "you?"! It calls it a "bounce back". That's sweet! The Prof is a step (or ten) ahead of me!

Yay for fast speeds again!

Cool, thanks for clearing that up for me, Bowchickawowers.

Doulos - *sigh* There's always one, isn't there?

Ok, for some reason this doesn't work. As a keyphrase, I put in (adj) (animal), but it always ends up as a xnone. I looked in debug, but it didn't make sense to me really. Can you not put plugins in for keyphrases?