Seasons

Well, obviously the exceptions list would have to be made manually. But having the general rules would let you get started without needing a massive list right form the beginning.

Zabaware's HAL assistant comes with a full lexical dictionary, complete with definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, sisters, hypernyms, and meronyms. Perhaps a chatbot could make further use of such a dictionary (HAL only uses it to define words on request) - especially the hypernyms and hyponyms. For example, if you tell such a bot about your car, it would be able to infer that you are talking about a mode of transportaion. If you specify, saying "my ferrari is red", it can infer that you are talking about a car. This could be very useful in knowledge linking, for instance: "Human: I am going to visit my mother over the holidays." without any prior learned keyphrases, it can infer the following about who you are visiting:
mother, female parent
=> parent
=> genitor
=> progenitor, primogenitor
=> ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent
=> relative, relation
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
=> life form, organism, being, living thing
=> entity, something
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> entity, something


then, once it has picked a hypernym, for example: ancestor, it can then go ahead and choose hyponyms to become more specific: hyponyms of ancestor:

ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent
=> ancestress
=> forebear, forbear
=> forefather, father, sire
=> foremother
=> progenitor, primogenitor

perhaps a bot like this can even be made on the forge? does wordnet have these capabilities?

Merry Christmas!

merry anti-christ mas

Happy Solstice.

Nadolig llawen, ac blwyddyn newydd da!

Whats Christmas?

Happy Festivus! (for the rest of us)

Blessed Solstice!

God Jul

Happy Chrismahanakwanzicah to you!

LOL. This will be the best Chrismihanakwanzicah ever!

Merry Christmas to all!