[bulk] [pandorabots-general] Favorite Favourite

[Dr. Rich Wallace]

This is also true.  You can work around many of the spelling corrections
by implementing substitutors directly in AIML:

<pattern>_ COLOUR *</pattern>
<template><srai><star/> COLOR <star index="2"/></srai></template>

The easiest way to build a unique non-ALICE personality from scratch,
saving yourself the combing out and editing, is with the Superbot
http://www.alicebot.org/superbot.html

> I believe it's in the AIML.  I know going through the latest code set on
> alicebot.org to comb out as much of ALICE as I could to make a unique
> personality, I came across a number of srais that translated favourite
> to favorite or colour to color (there seemes to be some bugs with
> recursion on "favorite" though...and beware telling a garden-variety
> Pandorabot that your favorite author is F. Scott Fitzgerald, they srai F
> _ as cussing).  I don't know how many there are, as I left most of them
> alone, but I think there are some for the -ise/-ize spelling differences
> too.
>
> They're probably there because ALICE is 'American'; she wouldn't spell
> things in British English, but she understands many of them.  It would
> probably take a good bit of work to make a Pandorabot that uses British
> English spellings in its replies.  Couldn't tell you if it would be more
> or less work than making a male Pandorabot.
>
> Brian Hoecht wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> Are you saying that the built-in UK English to US English is in
>> the Program Z interpreter used by Pandorabots?
>>
>> Or is it in the Alice code itself?
>>
>> If so, is there a reference or listing of the spelling
>> "correctors" so used?
>>
>> UK English is corrected to US English... hmmm.  The UK is England
>> isn't it and it is their language isn't it?  ;-)
>
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