Intelligent Assistant

About the Assistant

If you specify the

'dyna_user_action

symbol as the first element of your task

template's

signature

slot, any target that distinguishes one template from

another enables the Assistant to select the correct template. For example, the two
target templates in the following code fragment represent the games Chess and
Checkers, respectively:

chess_obj := {value: "chess obj",

isa: 'dyna_user_obj,
lexicon: [ "chess" ]
}

chkrs_obj := {value: "checkers obj",

isa: 'dyna_user_obj,
lexicon: [ "checkers" ]
}

The fact that the lexicons in these templates do not match allows the Assistant to
resolve the ambiguity. When the string

"play chess"

is passed to the Assistant,

the word

"play"

is matched to the

play_act

template and the Assistant creates

an action frame from that template. Similarly, the Assistant matches the word

"chess"

with the

chess_obj

template's lexicon and creates a target frame from

that template.

Note that the

play_act

action frame can be matched to the

primary_act

of

either the

chess_Template

or the

checkers_Template

. Because the

signatures of both of these templates specify the

dyna_user_action

and

play_act

frame types as their first two elements, the conflict is not resolved until

the third element of one of these

signature

arrays is matched.

The

chess_obj

target frame matches the third element of the signature for the

chess_template

. It does not match any elements of the signature in the

checkers_Template

. Thus, matching the word

"chess"

resolves the conflict

because the only

signature

array that has been matched completely is that of the

chess_Template

.

Compatibility Information

18

The Assistant now matches entire words only, instead of allowing partial matches.

The Assistant no longer uppercases the words that it returns.

The Assistant now adds the eight most recently parsed phrases to the bottom of the
Please pop-up menu. Phrases do not need to be interpreted successfully by the
Assistant to be included in this list.

The result frame returned by the

ParseUtter

function contains a new slot named

entries

, which holds an array of aliases to soup entries that were matched when

parsing the input string. To retrieve these entries, you must use the new

GetMatchedEntries

global function.