Readme info:

Version: 1.0.1
Authors: Keith Sterling
Date: 13th October 2017
NEWS: Version 1.1.0 Released

WHATS NEW IN 1.1

CSV Output.

By specifying the following config options, Program-Y can now output errors, duplicates and conversation in csv format

files:
    aiml:
       errors:
          file: /tmp/y-bot_errors.csv
          format: csv
          encoding: utf-8
          delete_on_start: true
       duplicates:
          file: /tmp/y-bot_duplicates.csv
          format: csv
          encoding: utf-8
          delete_on_start: true
       conversation:
          file: /tmp/y-bot-conversation.csv
          format: csv
          delete_on_start: true

Default Variables

New config option properties which will load a set of default property values into each new conversation as it is initiated. New conversations are defined by a unique clientid

files:
    aiml:
        properties: $BOT_ROOT/config/properties.txt

Introduction

Program Y is an AIML interpretor 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.

Programy-Y is fully cross plaform, 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, including
- Console
- REST
- Web Chat
- Twitter
- Google Hangouts (XMPP)
- SMS ( coming soon )
- Facebook ( coming )
- Slack ( coming soon )

Program-Y comes with a base set of grammars for various industry sectors, including

Energy Industry
Banking
Telecoms
Weather
Surveys
News Feeds
Maps

System Requirements

Program Y is built using Python 3.6 and has dependencies upon the following Python libraries

requests
flask
python-dateutil
beautifulsoup4
lxml
wikipedia
pylint
nose
coverage
pyyaml
tweepy
sleekxmpp

In addition, there are a number of additional libraries for use with Sanic version of the REST server, specifically

sanic

Using Program-Y

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
Roise - 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.

Tutorial