An Alicebot is an artificially intelligent software agent that processes natural language (a chatbot). Alicebots use the AI specific XML-based programming language AIML, designed by Dr Richard Wallace, a notable AI researcher and creator of the original A.L.I.C.E.. In computer science, a software agent is an abstraction, a logical model that describes software that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency. ... The term natural language is used to distinguish languages spoken and signed (by hand signals and facial expressions) by humans for general-purpose communication from constructs such as writing, computer-programming languages or the languages used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic. ... A chatterbot (also chatbot, chatterbox) is a bot program which attempts to maintain a conversation with a person. ... Hondas humanoid robot AI redirects here. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language that supports a wide variety of applications. ... A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer. ... AIML, or Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, is an XML dialect for creating natural language software agents. ... Dr. Richard S. Wallace is the Chairman of the Board and co-founder of the A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation. ... A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is an award-winning natural language processing chatterbot — a program that engages in a conversation with a human by applying some heuristical pattern matching rules to the humans input. ...

See also

• AIML - The programming language used to create Alicebots.
• Dr Richard Wallace - The AI researcher who created AIML and the original A.L.I.C.E..

AIML, or Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, is an XML dialect for creating natural language software agents. ... Dr. Richard S. Wallace is the Chairman of the Board and co-founder of the A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation. ... Hondas humanoid robot AI redirects here. ... A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is an award-winning natural language processing chatterbot — a program that engages in a conversation with a human by applying some heuristical pattern matching rules to the humans input. ...

External links

Alicebot online hosts

• Pandorabots - A very popular and free website that allows member to host an Alicebot or any other form of AIML based chatbot.

Examples of popular online Alicebots

• The Original A.L.I.C.E.
• Dawnstar
• XTAGON - A Highly Intelligent Chat Bot Created by Team VIR0S - No longer valid link.
• The Electronic Brain Community - Artificial Intelligence Bot
• Meet Star, an active ALICE Bot
• Lilith - An ALICE Chatbot Created with Dr. Richard Wallace's Annotated ALICE AIML
• Bearbot - The World's Most Intelligent Teddy
• Yuichan - Socratic Zen Conversationalist A.I.
• Incognita - An artificial intelligence conversationalist chatting globally

Readers in the UK or London can hear their local weather delivered by Alicebot.

AIML Resources

• AutoAiml - A Free Online Aiml file creator
• Netsbrain's Products - Avatars's products and Intelligence artificial