Re: Is there any way to easily countthe number of responses my bot is capable

OK. AIML 101.

 

There are two main AIML items

1. The pattern and
2. The response.

 

The AIML category:

 

<category>

<pattern>HELLO</pattern>

<template>

HI THERE!

</template>

</category>

 

Will have only one text input - HELLO - that triggers is, and when triggered it will only return one response. Now, the following example is designed to be triggered by multiple text inputs and when triggered return the same response every time.

 

<category>

<pattern>HELLO *</pattern>

<template>

HI THERE!

</template>

</category>

 

This category can be triggered by an unlimited number of text input strings along the following lines:

HELLO THERE

HELLO BOT

HELLO CHARLY

HELLO YOU POOR BASTARD

HELLO (some other string)

 

Now, the following example will return a response compounded by the output of two categories. Showing that the use of SRAI is able to exponentially increase the number of responses a bot is capable of making using a very limited AIML set.

 

<category>

<pattern>WHAT DOES * MEAN</pattern>

<template>

That is a good question! <SRAI>DEFINE <STAR INDEX=”1”/></SRAI>

</template>

</category>

 

<category>

<pattern>DEFINE AARDVARK</pattern>

<template>

It is a mammal, mostly operates in de evening or night.

</template>

</category>

 

<category>

<pattern>DEFINE TERRORIST</pattern>

<template>

It is a human, who uses violence to support his political beliefs.

</template>

</category>

 

<category>

<pattern>DEFINE *</pattern>

<template>

I do not know this word.

</template>

</category>

 

 

What does aardvark mean will be answered by the bot like so “That is a good question! It is a mammal, mostly operates in de evening or night.”

What does terrorist mean will be answered by the bot like so “That is a good question! It is a human, who uses violence to support his political beliefs.”

What does furniture mean will be answered by the bot like so “That is a good question! I do not know this word.”

 

Combining any of the aforementioned techniques will make it very hard to calculate the number of different responses a bot it able to generate. However, as a rule of thumb, count the number of templates for a reasonable indication.

 

Kind regards,

 

Anne.

 

Many days later, hi. I'm not sure I really understand... if any number of possible responses can be between the <template> tags, how is the number of <template>s directly related to how many responses the bot can give? (Bear in mind that I'm still an AIML-virgin, and it took me those days I wasn't responding just figuring out how to respond to a mailing list, so I'm likely to be a little slow here.)

> From: anne@...
> To: pandorabots-general@...
> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:27:02 +0200
> Subject: Re: [pandorabots-general] Is there any way to easily count the number of responses my bot is capable of coming out with?
>
> True, but as a general rule, counting the number of templates gives you a
> reasonable count.
>
> The flexibility of the SRAI is the real power and, in this case, sadly also
> the reason why if you're using them inside the <template> it will also add
> an unpredictable amount of variations in the bot's replies.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Anne.
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Dr. Rich Wallace [mailto:drwallace@...]
> Verzonden: vrijdag 6 juli 2007 21:50
> Aan: pandorabots-general@...
> Onderwerp: Re: [pandorabots-general] Is there any way to easily count the
> number of responses my bot is capable of coming out with?
>
> > The number of responses is directly linked to the number of <template>'s
> > that contain actual text output. If you can filter these out of your
> > current
> > set of AIML categories, then you will have the number of responses your
> > bot
> > can give. Just about .
> Using srai's in the responses could vastly increase the number of possible
> responses. A single category with star in the response can have an
> unlimited number of possible responses, each dependent on the input.
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