Readme info:

Version: 1.8.0
Authors: Keith Sterling
Date: 16th January 2018

Introduction

Program Y is an AIML interpretor written in Python. It includes an entire Python 3 framework for building you own chat bots using Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, or AIML for short.

Programy-Y is fully cross plaform, running on

• Mac OSX
• Linux
• Windows

100% Support for all AIML 2.0 Tags plus all Pandora bot ones they never documented

• Full support for al AIML 2.0 Tags
• RDF Support through addtriple, deletetriple, select, uniq and uniq
• List processing with First and Rest
• Advanced learn support including resetlearn and resetlearnf
• Full Out Of Band Support
• Full embedded XML/HTML Support
• Dynamic Sets, Maps and Variables

Program Y is extremely extensible, you can

• Add you own AIML tags
• Add you own Spelling Checker
• Support User Authorisation
• Support User Authentication
• Add your own Out Out Band (OOB) tags
• Add Dynamic Sets in Python
• Add Dynamic Maps in Python
• Add Dynamic Variables in Python
• Run a variety of clients, including
  • Console
  • REST
  • Web Chat
  • Twitter
  • Google Hangouts (XMPP)
  • SMS ( coming soon )
  • Facebook ( coming )
  • Slack ( coming soon )

Program-Y comes with a base set of grammars for various industry sectors, including

• Energy Industry
• Banking
• Telecoms
• Weather
• Surveys
• News Feeds
• Maps

System Requirements

Program Y is built using Python 3.6 and has dependencies upon the following Python libraries

• requests
• flask
• python-dateutil
• beautifulsoup4
• lxml
• wikipedia
• pylint
• nose
• coverage
• pyyaml
• tweepy
• sleekxmpp

In addition, there are a number of additional libraries for use with Sanic version of the REST server, specifically

• sanic

Using Program-Y

Full documentation is available on Program Y Wiki

After installation from the Github repository you can chat with your Program Y by running one of the many bots found in the \bot folder. These include

• Y-Bot - My own bot under development
• Professor - A huge knowledge base of questions and answers
• Alice2 - AIML 2 version of the famous Alice chat bot
• Roise - An AIML base set of grammars for creating your own bot

See the individual folders for unix and windows scripts required to run a bot.

Tutorial

Once you have got the system installed and have run one or more of the bots, head over to the Tutorial on the Wiki for a full run down of everything possible in AIML