[pandorabots-general] Form before function

[Dr. Rich Wallace]

You may want to take a look at the Superbot,
http://www.alicebot.org/superbot.html

which is specifically designed to make it easy to create an original bot
personality free of ALICE content.

Rich

> That is what I thought, but I thought I'd make sure before I jump in and
> completely redo the AAA set for my bot; stripping it down to English only,
> making it easier to do a full translation of the set which can be added
> later, and then expanding and reorganizing it to suit my needs.
>
> The problem with the AAA set as it is now is that it is built more for the
> Alice bot at alicebot.org and I would have prefered something a little
> more
> generic which would have been a little more adaptable for my needs as the
> Alice personality is built-in to the current set and I need a completely
> different personality.
>
>>
>>What Brian said is basically correct.  The file names are not important
>> to
>>the AIML interpreter for matching purposes.  The file names exist solely
>>for the convenience of the botmaster.   Once you load your AIML into
>>memory, everything is stored in a data structure called the Graphmaster
>>and the file names are discared (except in some interpreters, the file
>>name information is saved in case the program is able to write as well as
>>read AIML files).
>>
>>The project underway to reorganize the ALICE brain into more logical
>> files
>>may be found at http://www.alicebot.org/aiml/aaa
>>
>>Contractions are usually expanded by the pre-processor "normalization"
>>process that would normally convert "you're" into "YOU ARE", but again
>>this depends on the interpreter and the botmaster, so it may be the case
>>that the pattern "YOU RE *" could turn up.  I can imagine a situation
>>where the client typed YOU`RE or YOU at RE and these might be converted to
>>YOU RE by the normalizer.
>>
>>
>> > Dr. Wallace and I spoke on this recently.
>> >
>> > The short answer to your question is that how you store the files
>> > makes no difference.  All AIML categories are loaded into memory
>> > by the Interpreter and the pattern matching does NOT use the
>> > order of the category listing in the files.
>> >
>> > The Alice files are ordered this way because they were getting
>> > large and difficult to trace through.  A utility was run to order
>> > them, yet if the goal was to order the categories as the
>> > Interpreters should run through them and find them, then a couple
>> > of mistakes were made (i.e.  categories with the wildcard * in
>> > their pattern come before the textual patterns and categories
>> > with the wildcard _ come after - Interpreters operate the other
>> > way around).
>> >
>> > I haven't had this confirmed, but I also believe that
>> > contractions in patterns (or the <that> tag) need not have the '
>> > removed as you show below... the Interpreters will strip them out
>> > automatically allowing you to have your textual patterns look
>> > good.
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From:
>> > pandorabots-general-bounces+brian_hoecht=msn.com at list.pandorabots
>> > com
>> > [mailto:pandorabots-general-bounces+brian_hoecht=msn.com at list.pan
>> > dorabots.com] On Behalf Of R. B. Chandler
>> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:11 AM
>> > To: pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
>> > Subject: [pandorabots-general] Form before function
>> >
>> > I have a general question about the form in which AIML is done.
>> > Generally
>> > most files start with A and work their way down to Z. I know the
>> > reasoning
>> > behind this but if it were random would it make any difference to
>> > the
>> > computer? I only ask because I would like to group reductions for
>> > each
>> > instance of a single word into one group where it is easier to
>> > use the
>> > <srai> command as in:
>> > *
>> > A *
>> > AN *
>> > I AM *
>> > I M *
>> > YOUR *
>> > YOU ARE *
>> > YOU RE *
>> > Where "*" equals a given word and the reply is the same for all,
>> > most of, or
>> > several groups in the same categories. It would just make it
>> > easier as I
>> > make my way through the alphabet instead of having to jump all
>> > over.
>> >
>> >
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