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 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
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
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
- Rosie - 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.
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