Klingon Chatbot as a School Project

[Kerrithrarr]

Based on a previous thread and the need of a project for school. I have considered a Klingon Chatbot. Wondering what are peoples opinions on this. Any Suggestions?, Ideas?


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[qurgh_]

Good luck.

I looked at some open source chatbots to see if I could convert them to Klingon, but they were too English grammar centric for my programming skills.

Are you thinking of writing something from scratch or modifying a current bot?

[ter'eS]

The first thing you need to do is try to write a Klingon parser, something that can reliably decompose a word into the proper prefixes, stems and suffixes. From there it's mostly a matter of  keyword lookup and canned responses, with some word substitution thrown in - at least at the level of chatbot I was writing years ago. Modern chatbots may be capable of more sophisticated responses.

[tesseraktik]

How is you familiarity with the Klingon language? If you want to program a Klingon chat bot, you'll need to program a Klingon parser, and that will require a fair bit of knowledge of the language.

It's a cool idea, and if you can pull it off, I'm all for it. Heck, even if you can't pull it off, I'm still for it, but if you're not sure that you'll be able to complete it, perhaps then you should do it in your own time, rather than as a school project.
You could design an English (or whatever your native language is) chat bot for the school project (perhaps with some Klingon phrases thrown in), and then use the knowledge you gain through that experience to produce a Klingon chat bot in your spare time, or for a later project.

Whatever you choose to do, I hope you'll come back to share your results with us

Modern chatbots may be capable of more sophisticated responses.

Watson certainly is