ELIZA III: Pronouns
To make responses grammatically coherent, you'll want to transform the extracted phrases from first to second person and vice versa. In English, conjugating verbs is easy, and simply swapping "me" and 'you', "my" and "your" works in most cases.
In this exercise, you'll define a function called replace_pronouns()
which uses re.sub()
to map "me" and "my" to "you" and "your" (and vice versa) in a string.
This exercise is part of the course
Building Chatbots in Python
Exercise instructions
- If
'me'
is inmessage
, usere.sub()
to replace it with'you'
. - If
'my'
is inmessage
, replace it with'your'
. - If
'your'
is inmessage
, replace it with'my'
. - If
'you'
is inmessage
, replace it with'me'
.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Define replace_pronouns()
def replace_pronouns(message):
message = message.lower()
if 'me' in message:
# Replace 'me' with 'you'
return ____
if 'my' in message:
# Replace 'my' with 'your'
return ____
if 'your' in message:
# Replace 'your' with 'my'
return ____
if 'you' in message:
# Replace 'you' with 'me'
return ____
return message
print(replace_pronouns("my last birthday"))
print(replace_pronouns("when you went to Florida"))
print(replace_pronouns("I had my own castle"))