programy 2.1.1

AIML Framework and Platform

This release brings some important changes to the overall Program-Y platform and ecosystem including

• Thread Safety across all processing

• Multiple Bots per Client, useful to mix AIML and ML processing

• Multiple Brains per Bot, useful to separate grammars, including langauge specific

• Wide variety of clients including - Console - Web - Facebook - Twitter - SMS - XMPP (Google Hangouts) - Telegram - Slack - Viber - Kik - Line - TCP Socket - REST

• Improved Logging which now includes more info about client, bot and brain

• Support for AIML 2.x Rich Media

• Support for Emojis

• Natively support Pypi installation

• Asynchronous Scheduling of events

Rich Media

Rich media is an exciting enhancement to AIML proposed by the [AIML Foundation](http://aiml.foundation) which adds a range of new capabilities to the AIML language to help in building engaging interfaces. Rich media introduces a number of new template tags including - button - card - carousel - delay - image - link - list - location - reply - split - video Rather than just returning plain text, using these tags allows you to build conversations that including buttons, clickable links, images, videos and more complex UI structures

Introduction

Program Y is an AIML interpreter 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.

Program Y is fully cross platform, 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

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

• Energy Industry

• Banking

• Telecoms

• Weather

• Surveys

• News Feeds

• Maps

Using Program-Y

Full documentation is available on Program Y Wiki

Program-Y ships with a very basic bot that has a single answer, after installation you can chat with your Program Y by running one of the many bots found in GitHub repo

• Y-Bot

• Alice2

• Rosie

• Professor

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

Getting Started

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