Proof of concept for Responsive Disambiguation (with a bug)

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

@Felix Larsson

For what it’s worth:

The way I6 handles these cases is by a routine that matches the player’s command against a given set of dictionary words:

[ LanguageVerbMayBeName w; if (w == ’long’ or ’short’ or ’normal’ or ’brief’ or ’full’ or ’verbose’) rtrue; rfalse; ]; In I6, authors are presumably supposed to modify this routine (e.g. adding “or ‘go’” in the obvious place)

I understand, though, that you’re looking for a way to automatize the process, Matt. And this, of course, means hand coding it.

Well, not just that. If I can get Responsive Disambiguation to work (and then someone else can get it to work with the next parser), then it’ll be a bit more powerful because it’ll still allow “Go North” as a way of breaking out of the disambiguation question when it’s not a valid answer (which will be all the time). This might be particularly useful in Threaded Conversation, where it’d be easy to wind up with lots of valid verbs in the quips, and it might be annoying to treat them all as potential disambiguations all the time.

By the way the bug you mention seems to belong to Original Parser. At least it is produced by this code as well:

Include Original Parser by Ron Newcomb.

The Place is a room.
A go board is in place. A chess board is in place.


Include (- Replace LanguageVerbMayBeName; -) before "Language.i6t"

Include (- 
[ LanguageVerbMayBeName w;
    if (w == ’long’ or ’short’ or ’normal’
                     or ’brief’ or ’full’ or ’verbose’ or 'go')
         rtrue;
    rfalse;
];
-) after "Commands" in "Language.i6t"

Test me with "x board / chess / x board / go"

Hmm, you’re absolutely right. In fact you don’t have to do anything fancy to get this bug with Original Parser:

[code]Include Original Parser by Ron Newcomb.

Lab is a room. A buy chip and a sell chip are in Lab. A red block and a blue block are in Lab. A Go board and a chess board are in Lab.

Test me with “x board/chess”.[/code]

Roooooonnnnn! Halp!