I created an ALICE clone on BOT libre to test out the new AIML support, and have a few questions on the alice.aiml scripts.

The AIML script seems to work for the most part, but it seems to have a lot of categories that are unreachable or go nowhere.  I’m not sure if I need to import other files, or what is required.

For example, there is a big chain of srai’s “WHO ARE YOU”, but there is no such pattern?  Also there are a lot of categories with a “that” that the script would never say like “HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT ALICE”.

My ALICE clone is here, http://www.botlibre.com/browse?id=20873

and the script I used was here, http://code.google.com/p/aiml-en-us-foundation-alice/

I just imported the alice.aiml, not any of the other scripts.

If you only used alice.aiml from that link, you missed out dozens of files containing thousands of categories. You should use ALL the aiml files from that set.

Ok, I KNOW I posted a response here about this, but it seems to have gone missing!

For the most part, Steve is correct, but there are some files that can be omitted without any problems. for example, if I remember correctly, that ALICE set includes a group of AIML files that cover the MindPixel answer set (a series categories that deal with agreement/disagreement). Those files are all named mp0 through mp6.aiml and can be safely left out. Other files that should not be left out (as these are “core” files) are:

that.aiml
xfind.aiml
all reduction AIML files
atomic.aiml
client.aiml
bot_profile.aiml
client_profile.aiml
date.aiml
default.aiml
pickup.aiml
stack.aiml

That’s not to say that these files can’t be modified, mind you. Any of them can be changed to suit the needs of your project. Just don’t leave them out, or you’ll get some unexpected responses.

I knew I was missing something.  Thanks for the detailed response, I will import the other files.