Bug Stomp

Hmm.

"I'm studying to be a rich and famous actor" matches

I am - I'm
1studying|learning|training) - studying
to - to
2be a|be an|become a|become an) - be a
3:* - rich and famous
4p:Job-catch) - actor

It sounds like "I'm studying to be a walrus" is maybe hitting

I am - I'm
1studying|learning|training) - studying
to - to
2be a|be an|become a|become an) - be a
3:* - walrus
4p:Job-catch) -

which would give you a blank key4.

What about

I am (studying|learning|training) to (be a|be an|become a|become an) (*|) (p:Job-catch:4)

That makes the input between "be a" and the job plugin optional, and adding the :4 to the plugin key means your response (key4) will always match that key in the keyphrase, whether or not there is anything between it and the verb phrase.

Oh, ha ha...colon parenthesis, not sad face. This, but without the spaces:

1: (
2: (
3: (
4: (

Let's see if that looks better...

Oh, and invisible carriage returns: sometimes when I'm making a plugin I gather words and phrases from around the web and paste them into a Google doc or notepad, and then paste the whole list into the plugin when I'm done, rather than typing each item separately into the plugin. If there are carriage returns in the document or "curly" quotes or apostrophes and you paste them into the plugin they'll interfere with the ability of the language processor to evaluate and select the list items.

Hrm, sadly that didn't work. It seems (*|) can't be substituted for *, or at least in this case it broke the kp somehow. (Couldn't even find an attempt to process it in the debugger.)

I do appreciate you taking the time to look this over though. For now I'll just use the alternate kp to redirect nonsense and add more specific possibilities as the need arises.

Thank you!

Try leaving the * as is but keeping the :4 in the plugin key.

I did actually try that. Still nada.

This doesn't help you Nathan S, but you don't need to have "an" in your keyphrases, the site changes all "an"'s to just "a" before matching. Just saves a bit of time and effort. You can also use (det) instead, which could match "_an_ engineer" "_the_ president" "_a_ pilot", etc.

See I THOUGHT that from reading the book of AI lol. But for some reason I've been batting 0 with this kp. It wants specific variations for a and an to work and won't bounce back the appropriate determiner in the response.

It's crazy.

Hmm, even triggers without the *. That's quite the conundrum you've found yourself... In my testing this seems to work though, even for weird stuff. (i did edit it a bit)

kp:
I am (studying|learning|training) to (be|become) a (p:Job-catch:1),
I am (trying|attempting) to (get a job as|become) a (p:Job-catch:1),
I (work|am working) as a (p:Job-catch:1),
I am (studying|learning|training) (so I can|to) (be|become) a (p:Job-catch:1)

response:
Why a (key1) (postkey)?

Could just be that the websites health isn't too great these days. Seems slow, with a lot of time-outs. I find I have to hit the button to submit new kp's more than once before it goes.

I just tried out how you have it set up on your bot Zeig. (Thanks for checking it out) What I found is it has the same problem when I tried something similar to that. It will catch if the user uses A but not An.

I.E. I'm studying to be a engineer will catch
But I'm studying to be an engineer won't.

Though I love that yours returns the right determiner.

What I think I'm going to do is split it up into two different keyphrases. One for An and one for A.

I found a way to fix it!

Here's a couple things I learned along the way.

I am a * (p:Job-catch) will return the correct determiner but it won't catch if the user inputs an. Such as "I am an engineer."

Where it gets weird is... I am a * (p:Job-catch), I am an * (p:Job-catch) won't accept an input of an either.


I am (a|an) * (p:Job-catch) on the other hand works perfectly. It accepts a or an. It will grab things like 'I am a heart surgeon', I am a brain surgeon' I am an English Teacher, electrical engineer... etc. and it doesn't accept nonsense such a I am a walrus.

Input: I am an electrical engineer
Response: 'Oh yeah?' She asks. 'Do you like being an engineer?' "

What I discovered about the above keyphrase I was working on that the problem appeared to be in the response. I'm starting to think it had something to do with the quotation marks.

When I changed the response to 'Oh yeah? Do you think you'll like being a (key5)?' Everything worked out perfectly. Right determiner given back. Doesn't accept garbage input.

Hopefully this little adventure will help someone in the future.