Talk:Chatbot
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Open source bots
[edit]Links to open source bots would be nice... seeking now -- User:DennisDaniels
- I've got a very short chatterbot program (<30 lines) which I could add to the article. I wrote it myself in 1984 and as far as I'm concerned it's Open Source. -- Derek Ross | Talk 14:00, 2004 Jun 18 (UTC)
- Well, 33 including blank lines -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:35, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
SHRDLU
[edit]SHRDLU was an experiment in natural language understanding, but it hardly qualifies as a chatterbot. The crucial difference is that SHRDLU did know what it was talking about -- or at least "attempted" to. Its purpose, unlike a chatterbot, wasn't just trying to convince human operators that a "real person" was on the other end (except indirectly -- but then any human being qualifies as one, too. :-) -- JRM 12:26, 2004 Sep 1 (UTC)
- Agreed. However it's probably worth mentioning it just to point out that it's not a chatbot. -- Derek Ross | Talk 02:57, 2004 Sep 2 (UTC)
- That gets a bit too specific, I think -- perhaps a general reference to natural language processing would be better (of which chatterbots are but a specific (and rather whimsical) instance). -- JRM 11:47, 2004 Sep 2 (UTC)
WikiChat -- a simple Chatterbot example
[edit]In principle a chatterbot can be a very short program. For instance the following program — which should be copied and saved as WikiChat.BAS — implements a chatterbot which will learn phrases in any language by repetition in much the same way that a parrot does.
WikiChat: DEFINT A-Z GOSUB Initialise GOSUB LoadData GOSUB Converse GOSUB StoreData SYSTEM Initialise: LET DictionarySize = 1000 DIM Context$(DictionarySize) 'The character sequences that WikiChat has already seen DIM Alternatives$(DictionarySize) 'The characters that WikiChat may print after recognising a sequence. LET EmptyRow = 0 LET EndOfResponseCharacter$ = CHR$(180) LET ContextLength = 6 'A bigger value makes WikiChat more grammatical but slower learning. LET CurrentContext$ = STRING$(ContextLength, EndOfResponseCharacter$) LET DictionaryFile$ = "WIKICHAT.MEM" RANDOMIZE TIMER RETURN Converse: DO LINE INPUT "Human: "; Response$ IF Response$ = "" THEN EXIT DO LET Response$ = Response$ + EndOfResponseCharacter$ GOSUB MemoriseHumanResponse LET Response$ = "" GOSUB GenerateComputerResponse PRINT "Computer: "; Response$ LOOP RETURN MemoriseHumanResponse: DO WHILE Response$ > "" LET CurrentCharacter$ = LEFT$(Response$, 1) LET Response$ = MID$(Response$, 2) GOSUB InsertCharacter LET CurrentContext$ = MID$(CurrentContext$, 2) + CurrentCharacter$ LOOP RETURN GenerateComputerResponse: DO GOSUB Lookup LET CurrentCharacter$ = MID$(Alternatives$(DictionaryIndex), INT(RND * LEN(Alternatives$(DictionaryIndex))) + 1, 1) IF CurrentCharacter$ = "" THEN EXIT DO ELSE LET CurrentContext$ = MID$(CurrentContext$, 2) + CurrentCharacter$ IF CurrentCharacter$ = EndOfResponseCharacter$ THEN EXIT DO ELSE LET Response$ = Response$ + CurrentCharacter$ END IF END IF LOOP RETURN InsertCharacter: GOSUB Lookup IF INSTR(Alternatives$(DictionaryIndex), CurrentCharacter$) = 0 THEN LET Alternatives$(DictionaryIndex) = Alternatives$(DictionaryIndex) + CurrentCharacter$ END IF RETURN Lookup: LET Context$(EmptyRow) = CurrentContext$ LET DictionaryIndex = 0 DO WHILE CurrentContext$ <> Context$(DictionaryIndex) LET DictionaryIndex = DictionaryIndex + 1 LOOP IF DictionaryIndex = EmptyRow AND DictionaryIndex < DictionarySize THEN LET Alternatives$(EmptyRow) = "" LET EmptyRow = DictionaryIndex + 1 END IF RETURN LoadData: OPEN DictionaryFile$ FOR APPEND AS #1 CLOSE #1 OPEN DictionaryFile$ FOR INPUT AS #1 DO WHILE EmptyRow < DictionarySize AND NOT EOF(1) LINE INPUT #1, Context$(EmptyRow) LINE INPUT #1, Alternatives$(EmptyRow) LET EmptyRow = EmptyRow + 1 LOOP CLOSE #1 RETURN StoreData: OPEN DictionaryFile$ FOR OUTPUT AS #1 FOR DictionaryIndex = 0 TO EmptyRow - 1 PRINT #1, Context$(DictionaryIndex) PRINT #1, Alternatives$(DictionaryIndex) NEXT CLOSE #1 RETURN
Note that to begin with, this chatterbot knows nothing and therefore says nothing. However if one uses simple conversation with it, like a parrot it will begin to reply as it starts to find responses that are appropriate for the immediately preceding sentence.
Wiki Education assignment: Research Process and Methodology - SU24 - Sect 200 - Thu
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