NAME

Hailo::Engine::Scored - MegaHAL-style reply scoring for Hailo

DESCRIPTION

This backend implements the logic of replying to and learning from input using the resources given to the engine roles. It is inherits from Hailo::Engine::Default and only overrides its reply method.

It generates multiple replies and applies a scoring algorithm to them, then returns the best one, similar to MegaHAL.

ATTRIBUTES

engine_args

This is a hash reference which can have the following keys:

iterations

The number of replies to generate before returning the best one.

interval

The time (in seconds) to spend on generating replies before returning the best one.

You can not specify both iterations and interval at the same time. If neither is specified, a default interval of 0.5 seconds will be used.

AUTHORS

Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson, hinrik.sig@gmail.com

This module was based on code from Peter Teichman's Cobe project.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson and Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.