Version: 2.0.0 Candidate 1 Release
Authors: Keith Sterling
Date: 22nd March 2018

Second candidate release as part of the refactoring and improvements for v2.0 release This is now live on servis.ai and running all active clients so actively under test. RC 3 in the next view days will create the firsst V2.0 PyPi release.

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
  • Facebook
  • Slack
  • Telegram
  • Kik
  • Line
  • TCP Socket
  • Viber (pending approval)

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

• Energy Industry
• Banking
• Telecoms
• Weather
• Surveys
• News Feeds
• Maps

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

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.

Once you have got the system installed and have run one or more of the bots, head over to the Tutorial on the Wiki for a full run down of everything possible in AIML