25. Bot Configuration

A bot configuration consists of items that control the overall behavior of the dialog engine.

In addition, it consists of the following subsections such as bot string processing and additional function settings.

  • conversations
  • splitter/joiner
  • spelling
  • translation
  • sentiment

Configuration Example

bot:
    version: v1.0

    brain: brain

    initial_question: Good morning.
    initial_question_srai: Good evening.
    default_response: unknown
    default_response_srai: YEMPTY
    empty_string: YEMPTY
    exit_response: Exit.
    exit_response_srai: YEXITRESPONSE

    override_properties: true

    max_question_recursion: 1000
    max_question_timeout: 60
    max_search_depth: 100
    max_search_timeout: 60
    max_search_condition: 20
    max_search_srai: 50
    max_categories: 20000

    spelling:
        load: false
        classname: programy.spelling.norvig.NorvigSpellingChecker
        corpus: file
        check_before: false
        check_and_retry: false

    conversations:
    save: true
    load: false

    joiner:
        classname: programy.dialog.joiner.joiner.SentenceJoiner
        join_chars: .?!。？！
        terminator: .

    splitter:
        classname: programy.dialog.splitter.splitter.SentenceSplitter
        split_chars: .

25.1. initial_question

Feature List
Set value Content
initial_question_srai A start-up utterance. The utterance to be made at startup of client. The scenario described in AIML works and generates a response.
initial_question Startup response. Specifies the response to return if the scenario corresponding to initial_question_srai is not listed.

25.2. default_response

Feature List
Set value Content
default_response_srai An utterance executed if there is no matching pattern. The scenario described in AIML works and generates a response.
default_response Response to return if there is no matching pattern.Specify the response to return if the scenario corresponding to default_response_srai is not described.The default-response in properties has a higher priority than the setting, and the response in properties takes precedence over.

25.3. empty_string

Feature List
Set value Content
empty_string An utterance to be processed when there is no processing result of pre_processor. If there is no processing result of pre_processor, the scenario operates with this description as an utterance and generates a response.

25.4. max_search_depth

Feature List
Set value Content
max_question_recursion Maximum number of sentence searches. Specify the maximum number of searches when a long text is input, divided by split characters, and the dialog scenario is executed multiple times. Returns default-response if the maximum number of times is reached.
max_question_timeout Maximum sentence search time. Specify the maximum processing time in units of seconds when a long text is input, divided by split characters, and the dialog scenario is executed multiple times internally. If the maximum processing time is exceeded, default-response is returned.
max_search_timeout Specify the maximum time, in seconds, to search for a word. Specify the maximum search time in seconds for a word search during a sentence search, such as when a long pattern is encountered during a sentence search. Returns default-response if maximum processing time is exceeded.
max_search_depth Maximum number of word search branches. Specify the maximum number of times that a word can be searched for if it becomes too numerous using wildcards , set and so on. Returns default-response if the maximum number of word searches is reached.
max_search_condition Maximum number of loops of condition loop . Specify the maximum number of loops that can occur when a condition loop is spesified. This prevents an infiniteloop when the condition does not match. Returns default-response if the maximum number of loops is reached.
max_search_srai Maximum number of srai recursive calls. Specify the maximum number of recursive calls if the description of srai is a recursive call. Returns default-response if the maximum number of times is reached.
max_categories Maximum number of categories to load. Specify the maximum number of AIML categories to load. If the category specified in AIML exceeds the upper limit, loading is not performed. Categories that were not imported will be described in errors description as Max categories [n] exceeded.

25.5. override_properties

Feature List
Set value Content
override_properties Override permission flag for the name variable. If false, the name variable of the same name is not overwritten.

25.6. exit_response

Feature List
Set value Content
exit_response_srai End utterance. An utterance to be executed at the end of the client. The scenario described in AIML operates and generates a response.
exit_response End response. exit_response_srai specifies a response to return if the corresponding scenario is not described.