Aimlbot

How to use the Aimlbot robot skill

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AimlBot is a localized chatbot client that uses AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language). The AIML configuration files are stored locally and can be edited by hand or with an AIML editing tool. Additionally, settings for the session can be adjusted programmatically using the ControlCommand.

Main Window

1. Text Entry Field This is where you write your text entry. 2. Send button Click the Send button, or hit enter when you are ready to send your text entry to the AimlBot. 3. Response Display This is where the AimlBot will respond with its text-based response.

Settings

1. Response Variable and Script AIML responses can embed ez-script with square brackets [ and ]. For example, if you load the AIML file t.aiml, you will find this example under the category "test." Search the document for the word "test" and see the following response...

This is just a test $Direction.[say("Testing")]

As you can see in the above example, when the word "test" is entered as a phrase into the artificial intelligence engine, the response includes a variable and a script to run.

2. Open Config Folder You can specify the configuration folder to have multiple personalities per project. The new config folder must contain the CONFIG and AIML folders from the plugin root folder. Look in the current config folder of this plugin, and copy the AIML and CONFIG folders into the new folder. Specify the new folder by pressing the change configuration folder button. This value is saved per project.

*Note: make a copy of the AIML files if you will be making modifications to them. The files may be overwritten during robot skill updates. Here's a video explaining how to make a copy of the default files into a new folder so you can edit them.

3. Open AIML Editor Please note that the AIML editor requires .Net 3.5 to be installed. The config menu of this plugin has a button to open the AIML config folder or search for a phrase among all AIML files. The file search-ability makes it easy to find a response to edit with your editor, such as with a notepad. There's also a built-in editor that I've included; more info is below.

GaitoBotEditor Springwald Software created a built-in editor called GaitoBotEditorGaitoBotEditor was developed by Springwald Software with no relation to Synthiam. Synthiam cannot support or assist with using this AIML editor, but their online manual is straightforward. The AIML files will have to be loaded into the editor as a new workspace. We don't have much experience with the editor, but it seems to do the trick! The GaitoBotEditor requires .Net 3.5 to be installed.

4. Search You may open the AIML editor directly with the Open AIML Editor button in the settings menu. Otherwise, if you're looking for files related to specific keywords, the SEARCH option will be helpful. If you want to modify all responses to the word " Banana," type the word "Banana" and press SEARCH. The interface will prompt a menu asking if you wish to open all the files corresponding to that word.

Session Settings Memory

Each session starts with a fresh memory. The default value can be specified by editing the config settings files on startup. However, during the chat session the values can be altered. They can be altered by either entering phrase to alter them, or programatically with the SetValue ControlCommand().

Here is an example of altering the value by speaking to the chatbot. The name of the user has been changed to Mr. Bob by telling the chatbot the value.

Alternatively, the same value can be changed by a script. For example, if the Camera Device is combined with the Cognitive Face robot skill, the chatbot can be told who you are. The example syntax would be

ControlCommand("AimlBot", "SetValue", "name", "Mr Bob")

All setting data from the current session can be viewed by selecting the Show All Settings option in the dropdown.

Control Commands

A few ControlCommand for interacting with this skill programmatically from other robot skills.

- SetPhrase This will set the phrase as if typed into the user input box. If using a speech recognition robot skill, this is the ControlCommand to send the user's spoken phrase text.

- SetValue This will set the value in the session to your specified value. For example, you can set the value NAME to "Bob," and the chatbot will now know you as Bob. Interacting with settings can be done by asking the chatbot a setting value, such as 'What is my name?' or 'What is my birthday?'. You can configure these settings with text by entering 'My name is Bob' or 'My birthday is Friday', and the chatbot will know those values.

*Note: All settings can be viewed by selecting the View All Settings option in the menu dropdown on the main screen.

How to Use AimlBot Skill

1. Add the AimlBot Skill to your ARC project (Project -> Add Skill -> Artificial Intelligence -> AimlBot).

2. Enter your text into the text field in the main window.

3. Click the Send button.

4. Read the response in the response display.

Script Samples

The AilmBot skill accepts control commands to get data from other skills. This means if you use the speech recognition skill like Bing Speech Recognition, you can send a speech-to-text entry directly to the AimlBot text field with:

ControlCommand("AimlBot", "SetPhrase", $BingSpeech)

This skill also can execute a script when the chat result is returned. AimlBot can speak the result with:

Say($BotResponse)

-or-

SayEZB($BotResponse)

Another feature of this skill is moving a robot based on the code entered in the update-time file. An example phrase to activate this is: Move Forward.