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Posted: Mar 30, 2017

I want to enter the name of some subway stations like:

42 St - Times Square

However, the input get separated into two sentences, 42 St and Times Square. Is there a way to process them together?

Thanks!
 

 
Posted: Mar 30, 2017
   [ # 1 ]

add to your bot definition:

$cs_token ^= #NO_HYPHEN_END
 

 
Posted: Mar 31, 2017
   [ # 2 ]

Hi Bruce,

I tried something like this:

$cs_token = #DO_INTERJECTION_SPLITTING | #DO_SUBSTITUTE_SYSTEM   | #DO_NUMBER_MERGE | #DO_DATE_MERGE | #DO_PROPERNAME_MERGE | #DO_SPELLCHECK | #DO_PARSE
$cs_token ^= #NO_HYPHEN_END

However, when i test in :prepare, it didn’t work as expected. I get the following in the output

After parse TokenFlags: DO_ESSENTIALS HYPHEN_END PRESENT PERIODMARK USERINPUT FAULTY_PARSE NOT_SENTENCE
TokenControl: DO_SUBSTITUTE_SYSTEM DO_NUMBER_MERGE DO_PROPERNAME_MERGE DO_DATE_MERGE DO_SPELLCHECK DO_INTERJECTION_SPLITTING DO_PARSE
 

 
Posted: Mar 31, 2017
   [ # 3 ]

hi Michael, please show your source code/rule to catch:

42 St - Times Square


1. in control script set:

$cs_token ^= #NO_HYPHEN_END

2. in your application topic,  maybe you can use a pattern like

topic: ~introductions keep repeat []

u: (_* - _*)
  1. street: ^original(_0) \n
  2. district: ^original(_1)


producing this output:

>>  42 St - Times Square
1. street: 42 St
2. district: Times Square
 

 
Posted: Apr 3, 2017
   [ # 4 ]

Hi Giorgio,

Thanks for the info. I tried the rules you wrote and it didn’t match.

The :prepare output I get is below. Seems it is still using HYPHEN_END instead of NO_HYPHEN_END.

Original User Input: 42 St - Times Square
Tokenized into: 42  St  .  
Substituted (essentials ) into: 42  St  
Actual used input: 42 St 

Xref: 1:42   2:St   
1:42   2:St   
badparse Tagged POS 2 words: 42 (MAINSUBJECT Noun_number)  St (MAINOBJECT Noun_proper_singular)  
  MainSentence: Subj: 42  PRESENT 


Concepts: 

1: 42 (raw):  +~noun +~noun_number +~train_station_ids +~train_station_name +T~subway_flow  +~noun_bits
 +~mainsubject +~number +42 // 
1: 42 (canonical):  //  +~integer +~positiveInteger 

2: St (raw):  +~noun_title_of_address +~noun +~noun_proper_singular +~singular +~normal_noun_bits
 +~noun_bits +~mainobject +~sentenceend //  +St +~train_station_suffix
2: St (canonical):  //   +~propername

Sequences:
After parse TokenFlags: DO_ESSENTIALS HYPHEN_END PRESENT PERIODMARK USERINPUT FAULTY_PARSE NOT_SENTENCE 
TokenControl: DO_SUBSTITUTE_SYSTEM DO_NUMBER_MERGE DO_PROPERNAME_MERGE DO_DATE_MERGE DO_SPELLCHECK DO_INTERJECTION_SPLITTING DO_PARSE 


Original User Input: Times Square
Tokenized into: Times  Square  
Actual used input: Times_Square(Times Square) 

Xref: 1:Times_Square   
1:Times_Square   
badparse Tagged POS 1 words: Times_Square (MAINSUBJECT Noun_proper_singular)  
  MainSentence: Subj: Times_Square  PRESENT 


Concepts: 

1: Times_Square (raw):  +~noun_title_of_work +~noun +~noun_proper_singular +~singular +~normal_noun_bits
 +~noun_bits +~mainsubject +~sentenceend //  +Times_Square +Times_Square~1 +city_district~1 +district~1 +region~4 +location~1
 +~train_station_name +T~subway_flow  +object~1 +physical_entity~1 +entity~1 +~nounroot
1: Times_Square (canonical):  //   +Square +~train_station_suffix +~propername

Sequences:
After parse TokenFlags: PROPERNAME_MERGE PRESENT USERINPUT FAULTY_PARSE NOT_SENTENCE 
 

 
Posted: Apr 3, 2017
   [ # 5 ]

Michael,

I verified the code chunk I submitted ad it works fine; you need to modify the cs_token, putting

$cs_token ^= #NO_HYPHEN_END

before the rule fire,
e.g. in the control script (simplecontrol.top in case of HARRY demo bot):

$cs_token = #DO_INTERJECTION_SPLITTING | #DO_SUBSTITUTE_SYSTEM   | #DO_NUMBER_MERGE | #DO_DATE_MERGE | #DO_PROPERNAME_MERGE | #DO_SPELLCHECK | #DO_PARSE

$cs_token ^= #NO_HYPHEN_END
 

 
Posted: Apr 3, 2017
   [ # 6 ]

I moved the $cs_token ^= #NO_HYPHEN_END and it works now. It didn’t work in the first place. How mysterious!

Thanks for the help!
 

 
Posted: Apr 6, 2017
   [ # 7 ]

probably because when you change code in the bot macro, it does not have any effect except on NEW users or if you reset the existing user.
 

 
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