There are a couple of things I'm going to try.
1. Edit the AIML to remove full stops in the tag (except for just one at the end). This will produce some grammatical/punctuation errors. But I'm willing to live with comma splices and poorly used dashes if it simplifies the structure and creates more meaningful dialogue.
2. I could (maybe) add some script to the .swf that looks for a full stop in a string of text and stops 'reading' at that point. This would mean that in the example - I love Star Trek. My favorite series is 'Voyager' - only the first sentence would be passed to the other bot. This is technically possible but it may dumb-down the responses taking the colour out of the language. Particularly if the second sentence is an ironic statement e.g. I love Star Trek. Not!
3. A simpler fix I will try whilst contemplating the two above is to add a simple variable to count the number of interchanges between to two bot. Then, when there have been say 10 interchanges the 'stopMe' function will be fired automatically.
4. A more sophisticated version of this is have a generic 'exit' interchange fire after a fixed number of interchanges. I'm thinking here of Pinky and the Brain.
Pinky - What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?
Brain - Same thing we do every night Pinky - try to take over the world!
More to come.
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