Issue with triplie-ng that does not respond?

[ghost]

Hi,

I was just wondering about triplie-ng, is there any sort of threshold when the bot starts to respond? I have learned my "bot" about 500 words and ngrams around 1300. But it still is just silent whenever I write to it.

I write to it with: triplie-bot: hey!

But I get no response.

When I try commands it responds.

{"words":{"counter":442},"associations":{"counter":0},"ngrams":{"counter":1270}}

Does this have anything to do with the fact that I'm speaking to it in Swedish? I have tried the standard settings and "none" as algorithm, but it's just dead silent.

I have also tried running the bot from Gentoo and Mac OS X with the same problem.

[spion]

From those stats, right now your bot probably knows how to speak a little bit (ngrams) but doesn't know what it should say (needs associations for that).

The best way to get it to speak is to let it read things said on some moderately active IRC channel. Usually it takes a couple of days.

If everything else fails, try changing ai.keywords.threshold to something smaller (e.g. 50 instead of 150) and see if the associations start to build up.

Also, longer sentences usually cause it to get interested more easily.

Let me know if you manage to get it to speak. My config file is probably conservative because I usually feed the bot with weeks worth of logs first.

[ghost]

Thanks for your reply!

How many words and ngrams do you reckon would be the line where it starts to respond?

[spion]

Associations look like this:

(w1) <---- link ----> (w2)

To get the bot to speak, first you need to trigger at least two associations by mentioning words that have an association. Usually this means that at around 100 associations (they start growing very quickly later) it will be able to speak on some topics.

Note that associations are formed between interesting words (words that aren't repeated often).

If associations aren't growing, definitely try lowering ai.keywords.threshold

[ghost]

Okay, thanks!

Do you have any suggestions on how to configure it properly for use with Swedish? Should I leave porter as algorithm and 'en' as language or should I change to "none" and 'se' as language?

[spion]

For now, keep it as "none". You can change it at any time, as it doesn't affect the learning process - only the responses.

[ghost]

Brilliant, thank you very much.