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AIML, or Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, is an XML dialect for creating natural language software agents. Hondas intelligent humanoid robot AI redirects here. ...
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Background
The XML dialect called AIML was developed by Richard Wallace and a worldwide free software community between the years of 1995 and 2002. It formed the basis for what was initially a highly extended Eliza called "A.L.I.C.E." ("Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity"), which won the annual Loebner Prize Contest for Most Human Computer three times, and was also the Chatterbox Challenge Champion in 2004. Dr. Richard S. Wallace is the Chairman of the Board and co-founder of the A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation. ...
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Because the A.L.I.C.E. AIML set was released under the GNU GPL, and because most AIML interpreters are offered under a free or open source license, many "Alicebot clones" have been created based upon the original implementation of the program and its AIML knowledge base. Free AIML sets in several languages have been developed and made available by the user community. The current most active free implementation of an AIML interpreter is Program D, which is Java-based and has a large and active user and development community. There are also free / open source AIML interpreters available in Ruby, Python, C++, C#, Pascal, and other languages (see below). A formal specification and a W3C XML Schema for AIML are available. The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ...
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Elements of AIML AIML contains several elements. The most important of these are described in further detail below.
Categories Categories in AIML are the fundamental unit of knowledge. A category consists of at least two further elements: the pattern and template elements. Here is a simple category: <category> <pattern>WHAT IS YOUR NAME</pattern> <template>My name is Dick.</template> </category> When this category is loaded, an AIML bot will respond to the input "What is your name" with the response "My name is Dick."
Patterns A pattern is a string of characters intended to match one or more user inputs. A literal pattern like WHAT IS YOUR NAME will match only one input, ignoring case: "what is your name". But patterns may also contain wildcards, which match one or more words. A pattern like WHAT IS YOUR * will match an infinite number of inputs, including "what is your name", "what is your shoe size", "what is your purpose in life", etc.
The AIML pattern syntax is a very simple pattern language, far less complicated than regular expressions. It tends to suffice for most chat-oriented purposes, and where it lacks, AIML interpreters can provide preprocessing functions to expand abbreviations, remove misspellings, etc. A regular expression (abbreviated as regexp, regex or regxp) is a string that describes or matches a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ...
Template A template specifies the response to a matched pattern. A template may be as simple as some literal text, like My name is Dick. A template may use variables, such as the example My name is <bot name="name"/>. which will substitute the bot's name into the sentence, or You told me you are <get name="user-age"/> years old. which will substitute the user's age (if known) into the sentence.
Template elements include basic text formatting, conditional response (if-then/else), and random responses.
Templates may also redirect to other templates, using an element called srai. This can be used to implement synonymy, as in this example:
<category> <pattern>WHAT IS YOUR NAME</pattern> <template>My name is <bot name="name"/>.</template> </category> <category> <pattern>WHAT ARE YOU CALLED</pattern> <template> <srai>what is your name</srai> </template> </category> The first category simply answers an input "what is your name" with a statement of the bot's name. The second category, however, says that the input "what are you called" should be redirected to the category that matches the input "what is your name"--in other words, it is saying that the two phrases are equivalent.
Templates can contain other types of content, which may be processed by whatever user interface the bot is talking through. So, for example, a template may use HTML tags for formatting, which can be ignored by clients that don't support HTML.
External links
Main Resources
Free / Open Source AIML Implementations Actively developed: Dormant: - J-Alice (C++)
- Program # (.NET/C#)
- Program E (PHP)
- Program N
- Program P (Pascal)
- Program V (Perl)
- Program Y/PyAIML (Python)
Examples of Popular Online AIML Bots
AIML Communities & Bot Directories - AIML Scripting Resource (currently down)
- A.I.Nexus: A Showcase for Alicebots on the Web
AIML Resources - AutoAiml - A Free Online Aiml file creator
- TSL AIML Parser Chatbot Editor
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