Eliza speaks Erlang with a twist

As I said in the previous post, Eliza should be fairly easy to implement in Erlang and so it was, I present to you the first Eliza that speaks Erlang:

The image on the left shows the Erlang Shell where you can see some examples of Eliza being called as eliza:start(Text) [also possible: eliza:start(Text, Bot) (not shown) to choose some kind of personality]. Eliza will try to load its text file for interpretation from disk.
Eliza prints out in the shell and returns a tuple with: the input string, context information, extra words from the pattern matching and the answer from Eliza.

What for ?? A normal Eliza implementation has no idea what you are talking about, it does no provide or save the context of the conversation, so my implementation has a little twist, you can provide some additional info to each question-answer list, meant to be used by an AI implementation, so like above when stating your name, Eliza answers with {name,player} and the player name, so your AI could register that Eliza just got the player's name or whatever the player tells Eliza, like dislikes, likes, emotions, hobbies or whatever, your AI could then save the data to a database or you could also load a different Bot context file to chat more specifically on a topic. I will incorporate this in my AI modules in the future and in the meanwhile this will serve for some "dump" entertainment in SMASH. A miniature dictionary to showcase Eliza is included in the code. I also see a use for this on the CNPC's to detect automatically abusive or foul language, as mentioned on many previous posts.

If there is anybody interested in the code, let me know and I'll publish it here on the Blog, it's deceptively simple, just under 200 lines and not yet optimized, but it's a first step towards implementing AI in Erlang.

And now back to CAM.

Cheers,

Sunweaver