[wgb14]

<<When tour is used as a noun, it generally will have a determiner, so...
(  ~determinerlist *~ tour ) 
will probably do. I allow a short gap in case we have adjectives like "the grand tour" or "the first floor tour".>>

S its possible to do this without POS information (I guess the determinerlist is a list full of determiners (the, etc) that you have somewhere defined in your programming correct?), now I am seriously impressed. The way your construct patterns is really for further study. What can I say, i wish i could access your work somehow

<<I could TRY to deal with that by using only part of speech information like:
( ~determinerlist {~~adjective ~~noun }  {~~adjective ~~noun }   tour)  >>

But I guess here you will need inform from the parser right? Or do you use a ceperate POS tagger as well?

<<Bear in mind that writing patterns that can NEVER be tripped up w/o the parser functioning is not necessarily a great goal (your chatbot has to survive a margin of error).>>

Not sure what you are saying here....

[bruce wilcox]

The ~determinerlist is just a concept i can define in script. E.g.,
concept: ~determinerlist (my your his her theirs its '  's  the a an ... )

The POS information like ~~noun and ~~adverb  are not from the parser, they are from the dictionary.  Not a pos tagger. Yes, a word can be MULTIPLE parts of speech, and if I cared, I could exclude dual words by things like !~verb . But usually I wouldn't care.


You say:   Not sure what you are saying here....
I respond:  I'm saying that trying to eliminate all false positive matches w/o a parse is probably more trouble than it's worth. Obviously it would depend on the application, but as a chatbot, well... mistakes are human  
Ergo, in YOUR example, I would probably ONLY bother with the determinerlist approach and not go to pos data.

[bruce wilcox]

Technically, however, I am just showing the utilitiy of a synonym set like ~determinerlist. In reality, determiners are a part of speech, and i could use ~~determiner instead to access that.

[bruce wilcox]

Just for illustration, below is her "stub" topic on apples. She doesnt know much about them or have much to say.


topic: APPLE ( apple braeburn macintosh gala "apple tree" "Johnny Appleseed" "granny smith")
t: FAVORITE () I like braeburn apples the most.
t: I tend to have an apple a day at supper, though I don't think of it as keeping the doctor away. It's just tasty.
t: I wish Norse mythology were true. A goddess provided apples to the gods that give them eternal youthfulness. I'd like that.
?: (^^do_i_like_xxx(apple ) ) ^reise(FAVORITE)
?: (what * be * apple  >) either fruit or a company.

[bruce wilcox]

typo:

?: (^^do_i_like_xxx(apple ) ) ^reise(FAVORITE) == ?: (^^do_i_like_xxx(apple ) ) ^reuse(FAVORITE)