Release Notes 0.7.5

Overview

NLPCraft 0.7.5 brings about several important bug fixes, improvements and enhancements.

🙌 New

• NLPCRAFT-7 - Need to add list of complex IDL examples to a cheat-sheet.
• NLPCRAFT-69 - Create CI builds for different OS/JDK.
• NLPCRAFT-91 - Create Kotlin-based example for NLP-enabling Minecraft game.
• NLPCRAFT-195 - Produce comparative analysis.
• NLPCRAFT-206 - Improve intent and token IDL.
• NLPCRAFT-231 - Intent should be able to match on model metadata.
• NLPCRAFT-234 - Add metadata to NCUser and NCCompany & update DB.
• NLPCRAFT-236 - Add "nestedOnly" flag to model element and "isTopLevel" to NCToken interface.
• NLPCRAFT-251 - We need to make macro processor available for the models generated by code.
• NLPCRAFT-252 - Update docs for new macro DSL & IDL.
• NLPCRAFT-253 - LightSwitch example works very slow - some samples take > 1.5s to be processed.
• NLPCRAFT-254 - We need to support *.nc files that would include intent and predicate IDL declarations.
• NLPCRAFT-255 - We need ability to put intents and fragments in a separate file(s) *.nc referenced in the model.
• NLPCRAFT-256 - Intent IDL fragment must be paramerterized with JSON parameters.
• NLPCRAFT-259 - NCIntent should be applicable on class level.
• NLPCRAFT-263 - Callback method should support multiple intents attached to it.
• NLPCRAFT-265 - Check that the same callback is not reused my multiple intents.
• NLPCRAFT-266 - NCIntent annotation should be applicable to model class as well.
• NLPCRAFT-270 - All project templates should be fixed according to new IDL syntax.
• NLPCRAFT-272 - Test for user and company metadata usage.
• NLPCRAFT-275 - Rename DSL to NLPCraft IDL.
• NLPCRAFT-281 - Add term-scoped variables to IDL.
• NLPCRAFT-282 - NCMetaSpec passes individually, but fails in a suite.
• NLPCRAFT-283 - Need to test user-defined term and flow predicate.
• NLPCRAFT-290 - Tests hang under Ubuntu on "verify" phase.
• NLPCRAFT-300 - Move external configuration to a special tag on github away from master.

🤖 Enhancements

• NLPCRAFT-144 - Ping time too long.
• NLPCRAFT-213 - SQL example database.
• NLPCRAFT-227 - Examples should be moved to special module.
• NLPCRAFT-232 - Token IDL should support user data and user request data.
• NLPCRAFT-238 - We have to allow to override some model properties in model elements.
• NLPCRAFT-240 - Intents annotations should be scanned not in the model class only, but in the its parent classes too.
• NLPCRAFT-247 - Synonyms IDL improvements.
• NLPCRAFT-248 - "Flow" intent parameter logic.
• NLPCRAFT-249 - Direct synonyms should have higher priority comparing to artificial.
• NLPCRAFT-250 - Support "any word" in IDL.
• NLPCRAFT-257 - NCUser, NCCompany and NCConversation should use metadata.
• NLPCRAFT-261 - Sentences collapsing performance improvement.
• NLPCRAFT-267 - IDL synonyms processing refactoring.
• NLPCRAFT-274 - Log output data format.
• NLPCRAFT-278 - NLPCraft IDL functions.
• NLPCRAFT-279 - NLPCraft IDL tokens functions renaming.
• NLPCRAFT-287 - "jiggleFactor" and "permutateSynonyms" default values.
• NLPCRAFT-289 - Add new IDL function any() which always return true.
• NLPCRAFT-302 - Processing error when NCIntentRef or0 NCIntentSample used with static methods.
• NLPCRAFT-305 - Build procedure fixes.
• NLPCRAFT-307 - Add info about minecraft gradle wrapper jars to readme.md.
• NLPCRAFT-308 - Fix gradle warnings in module minecraft-mod.
• NLPCRAFT-310 - Minecraft example kotlin warnings.
• NLPCRAFT-311 - Default probe model started from CLI seems strange.
• NLPCRAFT-312 - CLI - server and probe version info should be added.
• NLPCRAFT-313 - Generated from CLI project templates updated.
• NLPCRAFT-314 - NCMinecraftFilesDump improvements.

🧐 Fixes

• NLPCRAFT-218 - Suggestions tool logic.
• NLPCRAFT-230 - Kotlin example failure.
• NLPCRAFT-233 - SQL model error.
• NLPCRAFT-235 - We need to warn users about "suspicious" synonyms, like "table?" instead of {table|*}.
• NLPCRAFT-237 - Intents matching issues.
• NLPCRAFT-246 - The probe returns empty variants for some elements configurations.
• NLPCRAFT-258 - Invalid part types of complex elements.
• NLPCRAFT-260 - Invalid sentence variants detected.
• NLPCRAFT-262 - NPE in CLI when no .nlpcraft exists
• NLPCRAFT-268 - Similar sentences (with different 'direct' synonyms values property) processed incorrectly.
• NLPCRAFT-269 - CLI cannot recognize server state.
• NLPCRAFT-276 - NlpCraft IDL functions processing error.
• NLPCRAFT-277 - Redundant tokens variants processed.
• NLPCRAFT-286 - "swearWords" configuration property usage.
• NLPCRAFT-291 - NCModelView.getMetadata() vs. NCMetadata.getMetadata().
• NLPCRAFT-292 - NCLogHolder class still has TODOs that affect the logic.
• NLPCRAFT-293 - Remove or rename and refactor NCJiggleSpec.
• NLPCRAFT-294 - Token property nlpcraft:nlp:sparsity has invalid (int) type. Must be boolean.
• NLPCRAFT-295 - Solver processing error
• NLPCRAFT-301 - NLPCraft CLI does not show model ID (only model classes).
• NLPCRAFT-304 - Both server and probe must be to load config a) from URL, b) absolute path, and c) resource or classloader.
• NLPCRAFT-306 - When probe and server have diff versions - probe does not shutdown properly (hangs).
• NLPCRAFT-315 - Probe config can be overridden.
• NLPCRAFT-316 - Rat plugin errors during release preparing.