[alicebot-general] Comma's in <that>

[Noel Bush]

Now if it were only possible to accurately identify (or even define, in 
some cases) "parts of speech"..... :-)

R. Vince wrote:
> Though not part of the AIML spec (and I am mentioneing this solely for the 
> sake of some future coder faced with this problem, and how I resolved it), I 
> tag the tokens with Part of Speech Tags as a pre-stage as part of the 
> Normalizing process, before Normalizing. If the POS's on either side of the 
> comma are the same (e.g. Jack/NP ,/CC Jill/NP) I convert the comma into the 
> coordingating conjunction 'and' (thus producing Jack/NP and/CC Jill/NP).
> 
> On the other hand, if the POS's on either side of the comma are NOT the 
> same, I remove the comma (e.g. "In/CD the/DT end/NN ,/CC no/DT one/NN 
> cares/VBZ" thus becomes ("in/CD the/DT end/NN no/DT one/NN cares/VBZ").
> 
> Essentially, if you wanted, a semicolon could be treated the same way. But 
> again, this is off-spec. I simply have incorporated it because I am working 
> on parsing text via AIML as a front end to a larger system.
> 
> -Ralph Vince
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mehri" <foreverlinux at yahoo.com>
> To: <alicebot-general at list.alicebot.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:20 PM
> Subject: [alicebot-general] Comma's in <that>
> 
> 
>> I ran into a particular issue.
>>
>> Some AIML files are written with comma's in <that> and
>> some are not.
>>
>> For example,
>>
>> <that>PRESS 1 TO KNOW WHAT THE MOUSE EATS, AND TO
>> DISCOVER ITS COLOUR</that>
>>
>> and some are:
>>
>> <that>PRESS 1 TO KNOW WHAT THE MOUSE EATS AND TO
>> DISCOVER ITS COLOUR</that>
>>
>> I do believe that <that>'s shouldn't contain comma's
>> or other punctuation.
>>
>> Is that true?
>>
>> I didn't see anywhere in the spec pointing to this
>> specifically, unless I missed something again in the
>> specification :-P
>>
>>
>>
>>
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