Answerific

Mining bot that can answer natural language questions by mining the web.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'answerific'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install answerific

Usage

bot = Answerific::Miner.new()
bot.answer('what is the composition of Pluto?')

How it works

Given an input, answerific will

Preprocess the input
Detect the type of question
Parse and rearrange the input given the type of question
Extract information from the web for that parsed input
Select and return the best answer

Roadmap

[ ] Add options at initialization
[ ] Better support for wh-words (atm, the bot just gets rid of them)
[ ] Better support for yes-no questions: answer with definite yes-no instead of statement

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/answerific/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request