Configure Answer Server Systems

To set up your answer server, you must configure one or more systems to use to retrieve questions. The [Systems] configuration section contains a list of systems that you want to configure.

The order in which you specify the systems is also the default order in which Answer Server requests answers from the systems. You can override this ordering for an individual action (see Ask Questions in Answer Server).

[Systems]
0=MyFactBank
1=MyAnswerBank

For each of these systems, you then create a configuration section with the same name, which contains the settings for that system.

NOTE: System names are case-sensitive.

Configure an Answer Bank System

For an Answer Bank system, you must set Type to answerbank. You must also configure the host and port of the Agentstore component that you are using as the Answer Bank.

[MyAnswerBank]
Type=answerbank
IDOLHost=localhost
IDOLACIPort=6000

For more information, see Set Up an Answer Bank System.

Configure a Fact Bank System

For a Fact Bank system, you must set Type to factbank. You must also configure the question parser grammars, the fact store, and the location of the coding files.

[MyFactBank]
Type=factbank
// Question Parser
EductionQuestionGrammars=./resources/grammars/question_grammar_en.ecr
EductionLuaScript=./resources/lua/question_grammar_en.lua
EductionTimeGrammars=./resources/grammars/datetime_processing.ecr
TimeLuaScript=./resources/lua/datetime.lua
// Fact Store
BackendType=sqldb
ConnectionString=Driver=PostgreSQL ANSI(x64); Server=sql-host.mycompany.com; Port=5432; Database=factstoredb; Uid=postgres;password=password;
// Coding Files
CodingsPath=./codings
CodingsDatPath=./codings

For more information, see Set Up a Fact Bank System.

Configure a Passage Extractor System

For a Passage Extractor system, you must set Type to passageextractor. You must also configure the host and port of the IDOL Content component data store, as well as the Eduction grammars and Agentstore components to use for entity extraction. You can also optionally define the locations of the classifier file and label file to allow you to save your training classifiers.

[MyPassageExtractor]
Type=PassageExtractor
// Data store IDOL
IdolHost=localhost
IdolAciport=6002
// Entity Agentstore
AgentStoreHost=localhost
AgentStoreAciport=5002
// Eduction 
EductionGrammars=./resources/grammars/question_grammar_en.ecr,./passageextractor/eduction/number_en.ecr,./passageextractor/eduction/person_en.ecr,./passageextractor/eduction/date_en.ecr,./passageextractor/eduction/money_en.ecr
// Classifier Files
ClassifierFile=./passageextractor/classifiertraining/svm_en.dat
LabelFile=./passageextractor/classifiertraining/labels_en.dat
EntityExtractionFile=./passageextractor/configuration/entity_extraction_en.json
SurfacePatternsFile=./passageextractor/configuration/surface_patterns_en.json
ClassifierBehaviorFile=./passageextractor/configuration/classifier_behavior.json

For more information, see Set Up a Passage Extractor System.

Configure a Conversation System

For a Conversation system, you must set Type to conversation. You must also configure the location of a task configuration file, which defines the conversation task in more detail. You can also optionally define the location of an Agentstore component to use to store conversation trigger agents, and session expiration for the conversation sessions.

[MyConversation]
Type=Conversation
TaskConfigurationFile=C:\AnswerServer\Conversation\tasks.json
// Trigger Agentstore
AgentStoreHost=localhost
AgentStoreAciport=5002
// Session Expiration
SessionExpirationIdleTime=600
SessionExpirationInterval=60

For more information, see Set Up a Conversation System.

Configure a Remote System

For a Remote system, you must set Type to Remote. You must also configure the location of the remote Answer Server, and the name of the system that is configured in the remote Answer Server. You can also optionally configure default values for Ask action parameters.

[MyRemoteSystem]
Type=Remote
AnswerSystem=AnswerBank
AnswerServerACIPort=7000
AnswerServerHost=server1.example.com

For more information, see Set Up a Remote Answer System.