/** * A program to carry on conversations with a human user. * This version: * * @author Laurie White * @version April 2012 * */ public class Magpie4 { /** * Get a default greeting * @return a greeting */ public String getGreeting() { return "Hello, let's talk."; } /** * Gives a response to a user statement * * @param statement * the user statement * @return a response based on the rules given */ public String getResponse(String statement) { String response = ""; if (statement.length() == 0) { response = "Say something, please."; } else if (findKeyword(statement, "no") >= 0) { response = "Why so negative?"; } else if (findKeyword(statement, "mother") >= 0 || findKeyword(statement, "father") >= 0 || findKeyword(statement, "sister") >= 0 || findKeyword(statement, "brother") >= 0) { response = "Tell me more about your family."; } // Responses which require transformations else if (findKeyword(statement, "I want to", 0) >= 0) { response = transformIWantToStatement(statement); } else { // Look for a two word (you me) // pattern int psn = findKeyword(statement, "you", 0); if (psn >= 0 && findKeyword(statement, "me", psn) >= 0) { response = transformYouMeStatement(statement); } else { response = getRandomResponse(); } } return response; } /** * Take a statement with "I want to ." and transform it into * "What would it mean to ?" * @param statement the user statement, assumed to contain "I want to" * @return the transformed statement */ private String transformIWantToStatement(String statement) { // Remove the final period, if there is one statement = statement.trim(); String lastChar = statement.substring(statement .length() - 1); if (lastChar.equals(".")) { statement = statement.substring(0, statement .length() - 1); } int psn = findKeyword (statement, "I want to", 0); String restOfStatement = statement.substring(psn + 9).trim(); return "What would it mean to " + restOfStatement + "?"; } /** * Take a statement with "you me" and transform it into * "What makes you think that I you?" * @param statement the user statement, assumed to contain "you" followed by "me" * @return the transformed statement */ private String transformYouMeStatement(String statement) { // Remove the final period, if there is one statement = statement.trim(); String lastChar = statement.substring(statement .length() - 1); if (lastChar.equals(".")) { statement = statement.substring(0, statement .length() - 1); } int psnOfYou = findKeyword (statement, "you", 0); int psnOfMe = findKeyword (statement, "me", psnOfYou + 3); String restOfStatement = statement.substring(psnOfYou + 3, psnOfMe).trim(); return "What makes you think that I " + restOfStatement + " you?"; } /** * Search for one word in phrase. The search is not case sensitive. * This method will check that the given goal is not a substring of a longer string * (so, for example, "I know" does not contain "no"). * @param statement the string to search * @param goal the string to search for * @param startPos the character of the string to begin the search at * @return the index of the first occurrence of goal in statement or -1 if it's not found */ private int findKeyword(String statement, String goal, int startPos) { String phrase = statement.trim(); // The only change to incorporate the startPos is in the line below int psn = phrase.toLowerCase().indexOf(goal.toLowerCase(), startPos); // Refinement--make sure the goal isn't part of a word while (psn >= 0) { // Find the string of length 1 before and after the word String before = " ", after = " "; if (psn > 0) { before = phrase.substring (psn - 1, psn).toLowerCase(); } if (psn + goal.length() < phrase.length()) { after = phrase.substring(psn + goal.length(), psn + goal.length() + 1).toLowerCase(); } // If before and after aren't letters, we've found the word if (((before.compareTo ("a") < 0 ) || (before.compareTo("z") > 0)) // before is not a letter && ((after.compareTo ("a") < 0 ) || (after.compareTo("z") > 0))) { return psn; } // The last position didn't work, so let's find the next, if there is one. psn = phrase.indexOf(goal.toLowerCase(), psn + 1); } return -1; } /** * Search for one word in phrase. The search is not case sensitive. * This method will check that the given goal is not a substring of a longer string * (so, for example, "I know" does not contain "no"). The search begins at the beginning of the string. * @param statement the string to search * @param goal the string to search for * @return the index of the first occurrence of goal in statement or -1 if it's not found */ private int findKeyword(String statement, String goal) { return findKeyword (statement, goal, 0); } /** * Pick a default response to use if nothing else fits. * @return a non-committal string */ private String getRandomResponse() { final int NUMBER_OF_RESPONSES = 4; double r = Math.random(); int whichResponse = (int)(r * NUMBER_OF_RESPONSES); String response = ""; if (whichResponse == 0) { response = "Interesting, tell me more."; } else if (whichResponse == 1) { response = "Hmmm."; } else if (whichResponse == 2) { response = "Do you really think so?"; } else if (whichResponse == 3) { response = "You don't say."; } return response; } }