zehfernandes / superscript

A dialogue engine for creating chat bots

SuperScript

SuperScript is a dialog system + bot engine for creating human-like conversation chat bots. It exposes an expressive script for crafting dialogue and features text-expansion using wordnet and Information Retrieval and extraction using ConceptNet.

What comes in the box

• Dialog Engine
• Multi-User Platform for easy integration with Group Chat systems
• Message Pipeline with POS Tagging, Sentence Analyses and Question Tagging
• Extensible Plugin Architecture

Install

npm install --global superscript

Documentation

Visit superscriptjs.com for all the details on how to get started playing with SuperScript. Or read the wiki

Example Script - Script Authoring

+ hello human
- Hello Bot

+ matches all input types

? matches only question input

- Is the reply sent back to the user.

Optional and Alternates - Script Authoring

+ [hey] hello (nice|mean) human
- Hello Bot

[] are for optional words, they may or may not appear in the input match

() are alternate words. One MUST appear.

Capturing results - Script Authoring (wildcards)

+ * should *~2 work *1
- I have no idea.

* Matches ZERO or more words or tokens

*~n Matches ZERO to N words or tokens

*n Matches exactly N number of words or tokens

And More

The above is just a tiny fraction of what the system is capable of doing. Please see the full documentation to learn more.

Additonal Resources

• Sublime Text Syntax Highlighting
• Atom Syntax Highlighting

Further Reading

• Introducing SuperScript on Medium
• Creating a Chatbot on Medium
• Custom Slack chatbot tutorial on Medium
• SuperScript the big update on Medium
• Full Documentation
• Follow @rob_ellis

Further Watching

• Talking to Machines EmpireJS

Thanks

SuperScript is based off of a fork of RiveScript with idiom brought in from ChatScript. Without the work of Noah Petherbridge and Bruce Wilcox, this project would not be possible.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright © 2014-2015 Rob Ellis