Dear All,
I’ve been following Bruce Wilcox’s work since his chatbot proposal and the introduction of chat-l. I am currently working on a LEAF robot and have been researching chat script capabilities to marry the two. An autonomous robot that can carry an autonomous conversation.

I have emailed Bruce Wilcox a few times regarding having Chatscript query a database of triplets from Wikipedia so as to use natural language to query and answer.  Have been researching all these things for a long time, and i keep running into walls This idea stems from the work of Monrai industries Cypher rdf nlp qa software which has completely gone from the web. Monroe developed a natural language rdf query answering system, but it’s like he has disappeared off the face of the earth…
Has anyone married a chatbot to query databases, e.g. dbpedia, yugo, etc in order to question and answer in natural language via triplets?

Joall

Hi, Joall! I’d like to (belatedly) wish you a warm welcome to chatbots.org. I’m also interested in Bruce’s work with ChatScript (as you’ve likely already noticed), and will be working with it quite a bit in the coming months.

I assume that LEAF is an acronym (we have a LOT of them around here! ), and out of curiosity, I’m wondering what it stands for. It’s a “failing” of mine, that I have this burning desire to “keep track” of these kinds of things.

As to a chatbot querying a database, Morti does, as a part of his interpreter script, but only insofar as to match user input to an output. It seems to me, however, that it wouldn’t be all that difficult to make other DB queries, as well, in order to expand upon certain responses, or to provide other services. I haven’t explored such possibilities yet, but it may be worth looking into, at some point.

Dave, I think it’s not an acronym:

http://www.leafproject.org/

Ah! I see. Thanks, Hans Peter. Interesting link.

Hi Joall, welcome to the forum! There are a couple database gurus hanging around here, I hope you find what you’re after. And I look forward to hearing more as your project progresses!