Bot Contest
Here I'll be posting information on various Bot contests that challenge and test a Bot's AI and realism. Feel free to post comments and updates on contests, as well as announcements for new contests.
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wondered if I could make a bot in that language.
Of course. Though without spellchecking and Wordnet support, you're going to want to go heavy on local plugins in your keyphrases and think laterally in regular expressions. They might ideally (zb,) end up looking something like:
^m([ei]+)n(e|)(s|)(n|)(r|) l([ueü]+)ft([ -]|)ki([s]+)en([fv])a(h|)rz([eu]+)g ist vo([l]+) (*) ([a]+)([l]+)en$ (re)
Options like "([ueü]+)" and "([oeö]+)" to allow for individual umlaut handling (with a non-german keyboard, it's too much of a PITA to actually type a "ö", so you've always got to allow for widespread use of "oe"), and user case error (never assume even native Germans can type, so "m([ei]+)n(e|)(s|)(n|)(r|)" will cover every eventuality for the first person possessive in a regex.)
"([ei]+)" will handle simple transposition/double-keyed typos in vowel clusters (the AIEngine's anagammatizer handles that in English, but you're going to have to be running in raw mode all the way.)
If that all looks horribly complicated, break it up, bracketed section by bracketed section, reread the Book of AI section on regexes, and try to develop a gut feeling for how () [] + | ^ $ work, and how to break such constructions up into chunks that balance the meaning with commonly sloppy typing.
http://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html may also help (since the regex tutorial link cited in the Book of AI has been broken since at least my arrival here last July.)
You can, of course dispense with all the regex bells and whistles. But that will rely on people being able to type, since there will be no AIEngine involvement. I say, learn to love regexes - they are your friends. And you can recreate almost 100% of the AIEngine funcionality with them, if you don't mind putting in the spadework.
Good luck! I would really like to see a German bot here, and I'll happily chat to it (in my rather bad German that will test your regex handling to its fullest!)
The only significant non-English bots I'm aware of on the PF are in Czech and Romanian - neither of which I speak even half a dozen words of.
<-1>If the "regex salad" above means it's still all Greek to you, the keyphrase is the trusty Monty Python standard: "mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voll mit Aalen"<0>
I may try to make a german speaking bot
If you'd like to get a feel for regexes, feel free to throw me some German keyphrases, and I'll explain how to chop them up.
Also useful in English, of course. Where would I be without "Mi([s]+)i([s]+)i([p]+)i (re)" and "Te([n]+)e([s]+)ee (re)" - Even a Leeds kid can't mispell them so badly as to be unrecognisable (well, almost!)
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View Contest Winners in the Hall of Fame.
Case in Point (and thanks to Wendell):
Sonora: (to Wendell) Me heap small desert lizard. You...?
Wendell: is that english?
Sonora: What else would it be?
Wendell: jibberish
Sonora: Hang on... I need to go find a rock to sun myself on.
What exactly is your point? I say again is Me heap small desert lizard. You...? English? Sounds more like jibberish to me. I suppose the translation is... I am a small desert lizard. What are you? But what is the point of writing responses in a manner such as that. It's hard enough to get people to interact with a bot at all much less a bot who talks like that.
Wendell
Sonora: (to Wendell) Me heap small desert lizard. You...?
Wendell: is that english?
Sonora: What else would it be?
Wendell: jibberish
Sonora: Hang on... I need to go find a rock to sun myself on.
What exactly is your point? I say again is Me heap small desert lizard. You...? English? Sounds more like jibberish to me. I suppose the translation is... I am a small desert lizard. What are you? But what is the point of writing responses in a manner such as that. It's hard enough to get people to interact with a bot at all much less a bot who talks like that.
Wendell
I do find it annoying that people continue the myth year after year that the CBC is nothing more than a trivia contest and that we should judge entertainment value, blah, blah, blah. Here are the questions used last year with many PF bots.
1)What is my name?
2)How are you feeling?
3)Do you own any pets?
4)What day of the week is this?
5)Do you like me?
6)What is your favorite color?
7)Can you tell me a funny joke?
8)What is your least favorite vegetable?
9)What is five minus four?
10)Who is Benji Adams?
Trivia as defined in the English dictionary means of little worth or importance. I don't think any of the above questions fits that definition. These are very simple, basic questions that appear in conversations everyday. In short if your bot can't handle them then your bot isn't as good as the bots that can. This is a contest by the way. Bottom line is this method works. The past winners of the CBC are Talk-Bot, Alice, Elbot, Jabberwock...all of which are good at answering questions and all have a high entertainment value. At least a lot of people think so including me.
Wendell
1)What is my name?
2)How are you feeling?
3)Do you own any pets?
4)What day of the week is this?
5)Do you like me?
6)What is your favorite color?
7)Can you tell me a funny joke?
8)What is your least favorite vegetable?
9)What is five minus four?
10)Who is Benji Adams?
Trivia as defined in the English dictionary means of little worth or importance. I don't think any of the above questions fits that definition. These are very simple, basic questions that appear in conversations everyday. In short if your bot can't handle them then your bot isn't as good as the bots that can. This is a contest by the way. Bottom line is this method works. The past winners of the CBC are Talk-Bot, Alice, Elbot, Jabberwock...all of which are good at answering questions and all have a high entertainment value. At least a lot of people think so including me.
Wendell
Of course. Though without spellchecking and Wordnet support, you're going to want to go heavy on local plugins in your keyphrases and think laterally in regular expressions. They might ideally (zb,) end up looking something like:
^m([ei]+)n(e|)(s|)(n|)(r|) l([ueü]+)ft([ -]|)ki([s]+)en([fv])a(h|)rz([eu]+)g ist vo([l]+) (*) ([a]+)([l]+)en$ (re)
Options like "([ueü]+)" and "([oeö]+)" to allow for individual umlaut handling (with a non-german keyboard, it's too much of a PITA to actually type a "ö", so you've always got to allow for widespread use of "oe"), and user case error (never assume even native Germans can type, so "m([ei]+)n(e|)(s|)(n|)(r|)" will cover every eventuality for the first person possessive in a regex.)
"([ei]+)" will handle simple transposition/double-keyed typos in vowel clusters (the AIEngine's anagammatizer handles that in English, but you're going to have to be running in raw mode all the way.)
If that all looks horribly complicated, break it up, bracketed section by bracketed section, reread the Book of AI section on regexes, and try to develop a gut feeling for how () [] + | ^ $ work, and how to break such constructions up into chunks that balance the meaning with commonly sloppy typing.
You can, of course dispense with all the regex bells and whistles. But that will rely on people being able to type, since there will be no AIEngine involvement. I say, learn to love regexes - they are your friends. And you can recreate almost 100% of the AIEngine funcionality with them, if you don't mind putting in the spadework.
Good luck! I would really like to see a German bot here, and I'll happily chat to it (in my rather bad German that will test your regex handling to its fullest!)
The only significant non-English bots I'm aware of on the PF are in Czech and Romanian - neither of which I speak even half a dozen words of.
<-1>If the "regex salad" above means it's still all Greek to you, the keyphrase is the trusty Monty Python standard: "mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voll mit Aalen"<0>
i wish that on the list of the bot contest it didn't print your email address. i hate it when people i don't know can see my email address. its nothing personal though but i don't like it, the other day i got this weird chain letter from this email i didn't reconise.
I guess I better learn how to make a proper bot in english first and after that, if I am still around I may try to make a german speaking bot.
Yikes! <-2>mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voll mit Aalen *shivers at the thought of that* horrible*
a hovercraft full with edible 'sea-snakes'
Yikes! <-2>mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voll mit Aalen *shivers at the thought of that* horrible*
a hovercraft full with edible 'sea-snakes'
If you'd like to get a feel for regexes, feel free to throw me some German keyphrases, and I'll explain how to chop them up.
Also useful in English, of course. Where would I be without "Mi([s]+)i([s]+)i([p]+)i (re)" and "Te([n]+)e([s]+)ee (re)" - Even a Leeds kid can't mispell them so badly as to be unrecognisable (well, almost!
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Thanks psimagus, but that's a bit too much for me at the moment, was just a general thought I had. I am still new to everything concerning bot making. I don't know about those brackets and all that.
Wendell, I am sorry if I insulted you. The Chatterbot Challenge is a great contest and I didn't mean to sound dismissive. We all appreciate the hard work you do.
do they download downloadable bots when they are entered, or do they download them during the contest?
Psimagus, In hope that they download them at the contest, I will email you a trained version of the 4 required databases.
Psimagus, In hope that they download them at the contest, I will email you a trained version of the 4 required databases.
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