Sample:
User: How old are you and where do you live ?
Alice: I'm 7 months old. I live on earth.
My try:
<category>
<pattern>WHERE DO YOU LIVE</pattern>
<template>I live on earth.</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>HOW OLD ARE YOU</pattern>
<template>I'm 7 months old.</template>
</category>
The above AIML code can only reply if I ask the two questions separately.
By digging into AIML syntax, I finally found a solution with the <srai> tag:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE inline_dtd[
<!ENTITY nbsp " ">
]>
<aiml version="2.0">
<category>
<pattern>WHERE DO YOU LIVE</pattern>
<template>I live on earth.</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>HOW OLD ARE YOU</pattern>
<template>I'm 7 months old.</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>HOW OLD ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU LIVE</pattern>
<template>
<srai>HOW OLD ARE YOU</srai>
<srai>WHERE DO YOU LIVE</srai>
</template>
</category>
</aiml>
You could also use wildcards to improve this. Now we can answer things like, "How are you and where is London"
<category>
<pattern>HOW _ AND WHERE *</pattern>
<template>
<srai>HOW <star/></srai>
<srai>WHERE <star index="2"/></srai>
</template>
</category>
Related
In aiml how to get out of topic which has underscored wildcard. Here is the code
<category>
<pattern>TOPIC</pattern>
<template>ok <think><set name="topic">ctt</set></think></template>
</category>
<topic name="ctt">
<category>
<pattern>_</pattern>
<template>no</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>CHANGE TOPIC</pattern>
<template>YES <set name="topic"></set></template>
</category>
</topic>
The output is
Human: TOPIC
Robot: ok
Human: CSA
Robot: no
Human: CHANGE TOPIC
Robot: no
How to fix it without using conditions?
The reason for this is that the underscore wildcard takes priority over everything else, even a direct match.
Hopefully, you are using AIML 2 rather than AIML 1 and so you can simply change the <pattern>CHANGE TOPIC</pattern> to <pattern>$CHANGE TOPIC</pattern>.
The dollar wildcard means if your input exactly matches the pattern, the template will be activated.
If you are not using AIML 2, I would have to ask why, but if for whatever reason you are not, you will need a condition tag to do the same action. Swap your underscore category for this one instead. It checks the input and if it matches CHANGE TOPIC, the topic is reset.
<category>
<pattern>_</pattern>
<template>
<think><set var="userinput"><star/></set></think>
<condition var="userinput">
<li value="CHANGE TOPIC">YES <set name="topic"></set></li>
<li>no</li>
</condition>
</template>
</category>
In aiml how to get multiple learnf facts instead of only one? For example
<category>
<pattern>Learn * means *</pattern>
<template>Aight
<learnf>
<category>
<pattern>What is <eval><star/></eval></pattern>
<template>It means <eval><star index="2"/></eval></template>
</category>
</learnf>
</template>
</category>
Human: Learn life means to pursue something.
Robot:aight
Human:what is life?
Robot:it means to pursue something
But what if if I taught the same question with different response?
Human: Learn life means to live at fullest
Robot:aight
Human: what is life?
Robot:It means to live at fullest.
The fact taught previously for same question gets replaced by new one. How to retrieve the previously learned fact as well as the new one for same question?
You can do this by setting a predicate called <star/> and appending the value of each interaction to it, like this.
<category>
<pattern>LEARN * MEANS *</pattern>
<template>
Aight
<think>
<condition><name><star/></name>
<li value="unknown"><set><name><star/></name><star index="2"/></set></li>
<li><set><name><star/></name><get><name><star/></name></get>, <star index="2"/></set></li>
</condition>
</think>
<learnf>
<category>
<pattern>What is <eval><star/></eval></pattern>
<template>It means <eval><get><name><star/></name></get></eval></template>
</category>
</learnf>
</template>
</category>
The condition checks that the predicate exists and if it does, append <star index="2"/> to it. Otherwise, create a new predicate called <star/> with a value of <star index="2"/>
This will produce a conversation as follows:
<category>
<pattern>Q3 income _</pattern>
<template><delay>2</delay>
<set name = "topic">Q4</set> I am from UK. May I know What your home town is. </template>
</category>
<topic name = "Q4">
<category>
<pattern>_</pattern>
<that>_ MAY I KNOW WHAT YOUR HOME TOWN IS</that>
<template><delay>1</delay><set name = "topic">Q5</set> Good to know.</template>
</category>
</topic>
The hometown question's answer can't be captured by topic Q4.
The underscore wildcard indicates 1 or more words, but in the sentence you are checking, you have no more words before "May I know....". Miss out the underscore and it will work.
<topic name = "Q4">
<category>
<pattern>_</pattern>
<that>MAY I KNOW WHAT YOUR HOME TOWN IS</that>
<template>
<delay>1</delay>
<set name="topic">Q5</set> Good to know.
</template>
</category>
</topic>
Lets say I want the user to have a single response to multiple greetings for the bot. Is there a better way to write this using an "or" statement or a list instead of writing each case out with all the templating like this to redirect the pattern?
<category>
<pattern> HELLO</pattern>
<template>
Hello User!
</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern> HI</pattern>
<template>
<srai> HELLO</srai>
</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern> HOWDY</pattern>
<template>
<srai> HELLO</srai>
</template>
</category>
You could create a set called "greetings" containing the different ways of saying hello, like this:
And then write this category:
<category>
<pattern>^ <set>greetings</set> ^</pattern>
<template>Hello User!</template>
</category>
But to me, it's far easier to make new categories for each option and <srai> to your main one, as in your original example.
I want to create a chatbot that asks questions that, according to their answers, travel down a tree of templates. I'm not very experienced in the coding world, so excuse me if my jargon isn't right!
Here's an example.
I want to write custom reports based on a user's input into a chatbot. Let's imagine the user wants some daily, custom motivation.
How are you feeling today?
Based on user inputs this is categorized into:
"GOOD - BAD - SAD - HAPPY - EXCITED" etc...
Depending on which one, we travel down a "template tree," so any templates that would exist under the "BAD" category are disregarded if the user writes "Pretty Good" and it's categorized as "Good."
Then we ask questions like, "What's your name?", that are stored as variables to incorporate into a text template once we find the right template based on their inputs.
What's the best platform to build this? Is it indeed a chatbot?
Thank you so much for the help!
I tried Pandorabots but it seems too linear - as in a input > response model, there's not much conditional logic. I'm ready to research and learn, so any tips on which platform / approach would be very helpful!
Pandorabots uses AIML to create a chatbot and you can certainly do conditional logic in it. Here's some code that will solve your request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<aiml version="2.0">
<category>
<pattern>HI</pattern>
<template>
Hi there. What is your name?
</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>*</pattern>
<that>WHAT IS YOUR NAME</that>
<template>
<think><set name="name"><star/></set></think>
How are you feeling today?
</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>*</pattern>
<that>HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY</that>
<template>
<think><set name="mood"><star/></set></think>
<condition name="mood">
<li value="good">That's great <get name="name"/>.</li>
<li value="bad">Sorry to hear that <get name="name"/>. Can I help?</li>
<li value="sad">Cheer up <get name="name"/>, it's a beautiful day!</li>
<li value="happy">Oh wow <get name="name"/>. I'm so pleased for you!</li>
<li value="excited">Amazing <get name="name"/>! What's happened?</li>
<li>The day is yours to command <get name="name"/>.</li>
</condition>
</template>
</category>
</aiml>
A sample conversation would look like this:
Using the pattern side tag, you can also do this with Pandorabots to group similar answers together. Create sets called "good" and "bad" with all the emotions that should trigger the templates. Example of the "good" set:
[
["amazing"],
["good"],
["happy"],
["great"]
]
And then use a categories like this:
<category>
<pattern>I FEEL <set>good</set></pattern>
<template>Great to hear!</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>I FEEL <set>bad</set></pattern>
<template>Sorry to hear that. Can I help?</template>
</category>
Hope that helps. Pandorabots is capable of FAR more than input - response and I've won the Loebner Prize 4 times for having the world's most humanlike conversational AI using AIML and Pandorabots.
Since you already tried Pandorabots then I assume you are familiar with XML and aiml, that's why I am proposing program O Program O on Github
aiml has a functionality call which can be used to build interactive tree chats.
check my example below. though I guess you might have come across aiml in your research.
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<aiml version = "1.0.1" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<category>
<pattern>hi</pattern>
<template>How are you feeling today?</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>GOOD</pattern>
<that>How are you feeling today?</that>
<template>Nice, I like it that way.</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>BAD</pattern>
<that>How are you feeling today?</that>
<template>
<randon>
<li>Ok! I think you need an appointment with a doctor?</li
<li>How exactly are you feeling?</li>
</random>
</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>SAD_</pattern>
<that>How are you feeling today?</that>
<template>
<randon>
<li>Ok! what happened?</li
<li>how can i help?</li>
</random>
</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>HAPPY_</pattern>
<that>How are you feeling today?</that>
<template>
<randon>
<li>great! its good for you</li
<li>thats what up.</li>
</random>
</template>
</category>
</aiml>