Building your Agent

The core of this project surrounds building a recipe recommendation agent as a team. There are different tasks that you will encounter:

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[TBU]Your Project Pipeline .

1. Getting Started with your MARBEL Agent

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Natural conversations are typically opened. Our agent should not just straight away embark on the task of recommending a recipe. It should first secure the attention of its user. Opening a conversation is a basic conversational competence. A common way of opening a conversation is by greeting each other. You should provide your agent with this basic conversational competence too. It should, moreover, be able to introduce itself to its user as in the following conversational pattern. A welcoming webpage should also be created.

Implementation Tasks Overview

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Implement two greeting patterns, and a Prolog rule for generating a self-identification.

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Tasks Focused on Dialogue Patterns

1. Implement Basic Greeting Pattern

   • Define the c10 pattern in patterns.pl for the greeting exchange: [agent, greeting] and [user, greeting].

   • Add the condition agentName('') to ensure it is used only when the agent has no name.

2. Add Self-Identification Pattern

   • Extend c10 in patterns.pl to include [agent, selfIdentification].

   • Add not(agentName('')) to ensure it is used only when the agent has a name.

3. Specify Agent Responses

   • Add phrases for greeting and selfIdentification intents in responses.pl.

   • Dynamically retrieve the agent’s name using agentName(Name) to generate self-identification responses.

4. Add Patterns to the Agenda

   • Update dialog_init.mod2g to include c10 in the agenda after start.

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Tasks Focused on Visual Support

1. Create a Welcoming Page

   • Define page(c10, _, Html) in html.pl to create a welcoming page.

   • Include a microphone icon for user interaction and dynamically display the agent’s name if available.

2. Design Visual Elements

   • Use Bootstrap components to organize text, images, and interactive elements into sections like greetings and microphone access.

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Tasks Focused on Debugging and Testing

1. Test Greeting Patterns

   • Test the basic greeting pattern by running the agent and initiating interaction from the Start page.

   • Set the agent’s name in dialog_init.mod2g and verify self-identification functionality.

2. Test User Response Variations

   • Provide non-greeting inputs to test the agent’s response and inspect session updates in Debug mode.

Instructions

[TBU]Greet, and Self-Identify

Request a Random Recipe Recommendation

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Select Recipes by Name

Summary Description

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Filter Recipes by Ingredients, Cuisines and Meal Types

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Unexpected Intents

Summary Description

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Filter Recipes by Ingredients and Cuisine

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Filter Recipes by Dietary Restrictions

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Filter Recipes by Excluding Features

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Confirm the Chosen Recipe

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Removing Filters and Showing Recipes on Demand

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Extend Your Agent (Make it Nicer)

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