Indexed Concept Parsing code
Indexed Concept Parsing is demonstrated in a simple system for interacting
with customers, in a micro version of the
Casper Project.
This code was written in Macintosh Common Lisp, version 2.1, but should
be portable to other Lisps as well.
Files
There are five sections of the Code/ various utilities, a frame system,
a version of Direct Memory Access Parsing, and
a version of indexed concept parsing. All of these are combined
in the micro-Casper verison.
Frame System
- Micro-frame.lisp
- A simple frame system, based on code by Chris Riesbeck. It supports
frame definition, features, abstractions and specializations.
Direct Memory Access Parsing
- Micro-DMAP.lisp
- A simple version of Direct Memory Access Parsing, based on code by Chris Riesbeck.
It is based on the simple frame system.
Indexed Concept Parsing
- Micro-ICP.lisp
- A simple version of indexed concept parsing.
It uses a DMAP-based matcher, and the frame system.
Micro-Casper
- Micro-Casper.lisp
- A simple conversation system, based on the Casper tutorial, which
shows how indexed concept parsing works.
- Micro-Casper.data
- Data for the conversational turns between the customer and the
customer service representative.
- frames.data
- Frame data.
- phrases.data
- Phrases attached to frames.
- associations.data
- Associations between index concepts (frames) and target concepts
(customer service representative statements).
Utilities
Much of the code depends on the availability of these utilities.
- ICP.system
- This is the loader file for Micro-Casper. It defines packages and
a simple loading system. It also defines specific file dependencies.
- tables.lisp
- This is a simple table facility; that is, a way to simply define key to
data tables.
- toList.lisp
- List creation tools; specifically, converting strings into lists.
- logging.lisp
- Logging facility.
Packages
The following packages are defined:
- icp
- Indexed concept parsing.
- frames
- Frame package.
- dmap
- Direct Memory Access Parsing.
- log
- Logging utility.
- capser
- Micro-Casper
Running Micro-Casper
In order to run Micro-Casper, do the following:
- Edit the file ICP.system and change the appropriate
path names.
- Load the file ICP.system.
- Run (SETUP)
An example run of the Casper system can be seen in the
Casper example file.