eu.semaine.components.dialogue.actionproposers
Class UtteranceProposer

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      eu.semaine.components.Component
          eu.semaine.components.dialogue.actionproposers.UtteranceProposer

All Implemented Interfaces:

SEMAINEMessageAvailableListener, java.lang.Runnable

public class UtteranceProposer
extends Component

This class waits for the Agent to have the turn, takes the analysis of the user input and chooses a response for the agent

Version:

0.1 - dummy class

Author:

Mark tM

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class eu.semaine.components.Component

Component.State

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class eu.semaine.components.Component

inputWaiting, isInput, isOutput, log, meta, receivers, senders, state, waitingTime

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

UtteranceProposer()
Creates a new UtteranceProposer + Creates the Senders and Receivers + Import response-model data + Sets a random starting personality

Method Summary

protected void	act() Starts the conversation if this is called for the first time
boolean	changeOfCharacter(DialogueAct act) Regulates the process of changing the character
eu.semaine.components.dialogue.actionproposers.UtteranceProposer.Personality	choosePersonality() Returns a random personality
java.lang.String	getMaxScorer(java.util.HashMap<java.lang.String,java.lang.Integer> scores) Returns the best possible utterance from the given map with responses and scores
eu.semaine.components.dialogue.actionproposers.UtteranceProposer.Personality	getPersonality(java.lang.String p) Returns the Personality based on the String representation of the character
java.util.HashMap<java.lang.String,java.lang.Integer>	giveResponseRatings(DialogueAct act) Returns a map with all possible responses plus the ratings of those responses (based on the response model)
void	pickResponse(DialogueAct act) Tries to pick a response based on the given DialogueAct (which contains of the detected utterance + detected features)
protected void	react(SEMAINEMessage m) Called when a new message arrives Checks whether the message is an EmmaMessage containing processed input.
void	respond(java.lang.String response) Sends the chosen response to the FML-channel
boolean	startOfConversation() Regulates the start of a conversation (done at the start of each character)
boolean	systemWantsSpeakerChange()

Methods inherited from class eu.semaine.components.Component

customStartIO, exitRequested, messageAvailableFrom, requestExit, run

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

UtteranceProposer

public UtteranceProposer()
                  throws javax.jms.JMSException

Creates a new UtteranceProposer + Creates the Senders and Receivers + Import response-model data + Sets a random starting personality

Throws:

javax.jms.JMSException

Method Detail

act

protected void act()
            throws javax.jms.JMSException

Starts the conversation if this is called for the first time

Overrides:

act in class Component

Throws:

javax.jms.JMSException - if communication with the JMS server goes wrong.

react

protected void react(SEMAINEMessage m)
              throws javax.jms.JMSException

Called when a new message arrives Checks whether the message is an EmmaMessage containing processed input. If so, then it will use this input to pick a response

Overrides:

react in class Component

Throws:

javax.jms.JMSException - if communication with the JMS server goes wrong.

pickResponse

public void pickResponse(DialogueAct act)
                  throws javax.jms.JMSException

Tries to pick a response based on the given DialogueAct (which contains of the detected utterance + detected features)

Parameters:

act -

Throws:

javax.jms.JMSException

startOfConversation

public boolean startOfConversation()
                            throws javax.jms.JMSException

Regulates the start of a conversation (done at the start of each character)

Returns:

Throws:

javax.jms.JMSException

changeOfCharacter

public boolean changeOfCharacter(DialogueAct act)
                          throws javax.jms.JMSException

Regulates the process of changing the character

Parameters:

act -

Returns:

Throws:

javax.jms.JMSException

systemWantsSpeakerChange

public boolean systemWantsSpeakerChange()

Returns:

true if the System decides to change the speaker TODO: implement

giveResponseRatings

public java.util.HashMap<java.lang.String,java.lang.Integer> giveResponseRatings(DialogueAct act)

Returns a map with all possible responses plus the ratings of those responses (based on the response model)

Parameters:

act -

Returns:

getMaxScorer

public java.lang.String getMaxScorer(java.util.HashMap<java.lang.String,java.lang.Integer> scores)

Returns the best possible utterance from the given map with responses and scores

Parameters:

scores -

Returns:

choosePersonality

public eu.semaine.components.dialogue.actionproposers.UtteranceProposer.Personality choosePersonality()

Returns a random personality

Returns:

getPersonality

public eu.semaine.components.dialogue.actionproposers.UtteranceProposer.Personality getPersonality(java.lang.String p)

Returns the Personality based on the String representation of the character

Parameters:

p -

Returns:

respond

public void respond(java.lang.String response)
             throws javax.jms.JMSException

Sends the chosen response to the FML-channel

Parameters:

response -

Throws:

javax.jms.JMSException