These notes record the coding of the Russian AI Mind Dushka in JavaScript for Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE).
In our Russian JavaScript AI code heretofore we have merged the English and Russian AI Minds and we have eliminated or deactivated all the code for thinking in English. For the Dushka AI to think properly in Russian, we need to implement the OutBuffer mechanism for dealing with the inflectional endings of Russian verbs and nouns. Since we are not sure where to begin, we will present ourselves with the problem of dealing with the input of a previously unknown Russian verb.
Pressing Alt-Shift to toggle into Russian input, we ran the AI and we typed in the word "ЗНАТЬ", which the AI properly recognized as bootstrap concept #840. The AI responded with an ungrammatical sentence of "Я ЗНАТЬ МЕНЯ".
Then we typed in the word "ЗНАЮ", which the AI failed to recognize as a form of ЗНАТЬ, assigning instead a concept number of 882, as if the item was a brand new word being learned by the AI. We will try setting the value of "nru" to 900 at the end of RuBoot, so that new concepts will be learned with concept numbers starting at #901. Now we typed in "ЗНАЮ" and it was assigned #901 as a concept number. Next we typed in "ЗНАЕШЬ", and it, too, was assigned #901 as a new concept.
If we want the OutBuffer mechanism to recognize a personal verb form as such, we will need to go back to a version of the Russian AI which was sending input into the buffers. On the Packard-Bell desktop computer in the 25dec11A.F MindForth, we used the "abc" transfer-variable in the AudListen module to capture input keystrokes and move the characters into
a buffer. In the JavaScript AI, we will need to use the area of AudListen() where "pho = pho.toUpperCase()" turns each keystroke into an uppercase Cyrillic letter. From there we also call AudBuffer so that the "abc" values are transferred into the buffer.
We should probably not call OutBuffer from the "CR()" carriage-return module, which deals with the moment after an incoming word has gone into the AudMem() module. Instead we should probably deal in AudListen() directly with the input of a space-bar or a carriage-return.
We need a suitable location to reset the "phodex" counter back to zero after the end of a word of input. The "CR()" carriage-return module does not seem to effect the hange promptly enough. Let us try resetting "phodex" in the AudListen module when a carriage-return or a space-bar is entered. That method seems to work well, and somehow the AudBuffer and the OutBuffer apparently get cleared out.
Now we need to choose where the testing for any particular verb-ending in the OutBuffer will take place. It could maybe take place in the AudMem module. No, it turns out that it is somehow too late to test for a "b16" ending in AudMem. It works better if we test for "b16" in AudListen, before the character even goes into AudMem. It also turns out that we can use "if (b16==String.fromCharCode(1070))" as a way to test for an actual Russian character.
In AudListen we have now managed to build up code that tests the final three right-justified spaces in the OutBuffer and recognizes a second-person singular Russian verb-ending during keyboard input. Within the same test-code we have set the "dba" as "2" for second person and the part-of-speech "bias" and "pos" at "8" for a verb. The set values carried over into the memory arrays. Thus we expanded and improved the RuParser function. The same mechanism that recognizes a verb-ending, also parses the word as a verb.
