Public Member Functions | Protected Member Functions | Protected Attributes

VIAgents.ControlledChatterBot Class Reference

The basic bot supporting the chat functionality. ALICE chat engine and Yahoo! Answers are used for chatting with a user. More...

Inheritance diagram for VIAgents.ControlledChatterBot:
VIAgents.ControlledSLBot VIAgents.SLBot VIAgents.InstitutionalAgent VIAgents.Agent

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Public Member Functions

 ControlledChatterBot (string inFirstName, string inLastName, string inPassword)
 ControlledChatterBot (string inFirstName, string inLastName, string inPassword, string inRegion, bool inTeleport)
override void PerformCommand (string inCommand, Avatar inAvatar)
 Given the string command perform the corresponding action.

Protected Member Functions

String GetChatResponse (String inUserInput, String inUserName)
 Generate the chat response for the given user request. Alice chatter engine is used to produce the result. Before calling this method InitializeChatEngine() call is needed.
virtual void SetUpChatterBotPersonality ()
 Override this method to set up some bot specific personality data.
String GetYahooAnswer (String query)
 Let the bot access the Yahoo! Answers site and try to find an answer to the given question there.

Protected Attributes

Bot m_chatterBot = new Bot()

Detailed Description

The basic bot supporting the chat functionality. ALICE chat engine and Yahoo! Answers are used for chatting with a user.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

VIAgents.ControlledChatterBot.ControlledChatterBot ( string  inFirstName,
string  inLastName,
string  inPassword 
)
VIAgents.ControlledChatterBot.ControlledChatterBot ( string  inFirstName,
string  inLastName,
string  inPassword,
string  inRegion,
bool  inTeleport 
)

Member Function Documentation

String VIAgents.ControlledChatterBot.GetChatResponse ( String  inUserInput,
String  inUserName 
) [protected]

Generate the chat response for the given user request. Alice chatter engine is used to produce the result. Before calling this method InitializeChatEngine() call is needed.

Parameters:
inUserInput The incomming chat line from the userString
inUserName User name in Second Life in the form "firstname lastname" String
Returns:
The generated bot response String
String VIAgents.ControlledChatterBot.GetYahooAnswer ( String  query  )  [protected]

Let the bot access the Yahoo! Answers site and try to find an answer to the given question there.

Parameters:
query The query string with the user question
Returns:
The most suitable answer from the Yahoo! Answers site or "" if no reasonable answer was found.
override void VIAgents.ControlledChatterBot.PerformCommand ( string  inCommand,
Avatar  inAvatar 
) [virtual]

Given the string command perform the corresponding action.

Reimplemented from VIAgents.ControlledSLBot.

virtual void VIAgents.ControlledChatterBot.SetUpChatterBotPersonality (  )  [protected, virtual]

Override this method to set up some bot specific personality data.

Member Data Documentation

Bot VIAgents.ControlledChatterBot.m_chatterBot = new Bot() [protected]
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