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I have fixed the glitch just now that prevented it from answering those questions normally.

With regards to the survey, would you consider adding a third option to each of the answer sets to cover null cases (i.e. not applicable or insufficient information). Alternatively giving context in which the statement's made (e.g. previous 4/5 comments from both parties) may help.

e.g. "I am a guy"

    -1: inventive/curious
    -2: consistent/cautious

#2 given it's a simple statement with no follow up question.

    -1: efficient/organized
    -2: easy-going/careless

#1 as it's a statement with no fluff or politeness surrounding it.

    -1: outgoing/energetic
    -2: solitary/reserved

Hard to say. I picked #2 as it's a short answer trying to avoid more conversation, but depending on the context could just as easily be #1 (e.g. "Do you like sports?").

    -1: friendly/compassionate
    -2: analytical/detached

As above; opted for 2 because it's a statement of fact (but again, if the previous statement was something like "Do you think Natalie Tran's attractive" it could be #1)

    -1: sensitive/nervous
    -2: secure/confident

This is the hardest one each time. #1 - they're trying to give short answers to move the conversation back to the other person / away from them. #2 - they're not waffling on nervously, but are communicating clear and simple facts (with confidence?).

There's a perceptual dialectological difference between "hella pregnant" (Northern California) and "totally pregnant" (Southern California).

Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal? The Perceptual Dialectology of California

http://eng.sagepub.com/content/35/4/325.abstract

http://people.duke.edu/~eec10/hellanorcal.pdf

This study provides the first detailed account of perceptual dialectology within California (as well as one of the first accounts of perceptual dialectology within any single state). Quantitative analysis of a map-labeling task carried out in Southern California reveals that California's most salient linguistic boundary is between the northern and southern regions of the state. Whereas studies of the perceptual dialectology of the United States as a whole have focused almost exclusively on regional dialect differences, respondents associated particular regions of California less with distinctive dialects than with differences in language (English versus Spanish), slang use, and social groups. The diverse sociolinguistic situation of California is reflected in the emphasis both on highly salient social groups thought to be stereotypical of California by residents and nonresidents alike (e.g., surfers) and on groups that, though prominent in the cultural landscape of the state, remain largely unrecognized by outsiders (e.g., hicks).

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By far, the most frequently remarked-upon slang term in the map-labeling data was hella, accounting for 47.4 percent of the slang and other lexical labels. Hella is a slang term originating in Northern California and one that remains—aside from a few brief moments in the national spotlight due to its circulation in popular culture— largely restricted to that region (Bucholtz 2006). The term, which apparently lexicalized from (a) hell of (a), functions as both a quantifier (There were hella people there) and an intensifier (He runs hella fast). Four respondents also mentioned the slang term hecka, the G-rated equivalent of hella, but this term was not counted separately, because tokens of hecka always co-occurred with hella. For Southern Californians in particular, hella represents a crucial shibboleth separating the two major regions of the state. As shown in Figure 7, respondents tended to identify hella overwhelmingly as a Northern California slang term, and its appearance in other regions of the map drops dramatically from north to south. Thus Northern California was variously labeled the hellas, Land of the Hella’s, and Hella capital, and one respondent provided an isogloss designating “the ‘hella’ line.” (In the map data, the Central Coast around Santa Barbara seemed to be the dividing line between users and nonusers of hella, and the fact that the study was conducted in this region may have enhanced respondents’ focus on this particular issue.) [*10: The respondent’s confusion may also be due to the existence of the Crips, a notorious Los Angeles–based gang.] Hella users were also negatively evaluated by Southern Californians, and the term came in for a good deal of criticism, such as Hella is not a real word and [hecka is] probably the worst word ever.

If you look at the source its using something called blekko.php - which upon googling heads to a "IBM Watson purchased this".

Is this using watson behind the scenes?

No - if you look up Blekko (which is a regular web search engine which had a free API), it just shut down (which is actually a bad thing for me). I was using it for researching and corroborating web results, which hinders part of the functionality of my bot.

Blekko was just bought by IBM a few days ago, so to answer your question, my bot does not use IBM's APIs. My bot was using it for web results, but now it doesn't work. I'm trying to find a free web search API as an alternative now that Blekko is shut down.