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superscriptjs / superscript

A dialogue engine for creating chat bots
http://superscriptjs.com
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Confusion regarding .tbl files from ChatScript #313

Closed RichardB122 closed 7 years ago

RichardB122 commented 7 years ago

Hi, I would like to better understand how to use .tbl files in my chatbots. I haven't had much experience with ChatScript and so I don't have a full understanding of how it works. I looked for documentation, but couldn't find any, I also looked through an old issue which seemed provide some insight, but didn't answer everything. https://github.com/superscriptjs/superscript/issues/110

First what I want to confirm is that .tbl files could be used to create additional information that would be accessed in a similar way to wordnet and conceptnet within the patterns themselves. It also seemed like in the issue that implementing .tbl files overrode those libraries although I am not sure.

I would like to use .tbl files to add additonal functionality but not take away from the wordnet and conceptnet libraries. One of the main uses I would like this for is for home automation. I would like to be able to create a new category with the names of all the lights in my house that could show up in patterns like or ~lights. I am also not sure whether a .tbl files list concepts, words or both.

Also I think we really need an article that documents how to implement .tbl files into a chatbot as it is probably something that many people could benefit from. I'd be fine with drafting some documentation for this myself, but I do need someone to explain it to me.

Thanks for all your hard work on this project.

silentrob commented 7 years ago

This has been addressed in the 1.0 wiki.