Chat Bot based on Thunderstone's Texis
10/24/2001
I'll say it up-front: I'm a Thunderstone evangelist. I have never seen a faster database product in my life. Thunderstone is mostly known for the search engines created from their database product dubbed Texis. This is the search engine you'll find on the most prominent of web sites including Amazon, Ebay, and ZD net amongst thousands of others. In fact, more Internet searches are conducted daily by their software than any other
available package. Webinator, the free search engine available from Thunderstone, is a product based on Texis. If you are looking for a nice, and FAST search tool for your site, definitely check Webinator out. For more powerful searches on high traffic sites, I'll give you some free advice - get Texis. Both can be found at Thunderstone's site.
With that said, let me tell you a few secrets about Thunderstone's products that I believe will enable me to create a better "bot".
Texis has at its core the original Thunderstone product "Metamorph." Metamorph's functions fall into the categories of knowledge acquisition, natural
language processing, and intelligent text retrieval. It has a built-in thesaurus and many built-in functions allowing one to easily find similar items to those you are searching on. I believe that by utilizing their software and special functions, I will be able to create a more realistic chat bot than is currently available, and one that is truely self-learning. This is a back-burner project, but keep your eyes here for my progress. I will post all code for your use as I work through this new project.