[IAEP] Emulating Alice in Turtle

[Tony Anderson]

Hi,

That is what was done in the Speak Activity so it can provide a
good model.

Tony



On 11/17/2012 08:26 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> If we made a "python block" front end to the AIML engine, we could use
> it in Turtle Art. I've not played with AIML, but it looks to be fairly
> straight forward.
>
> -walter
>
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just a footnote. There may be some who are not aware that Alice is based on
>> AIML:
>>
>> http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML
>>
>> The AIML engine in Speak is written in Python.
>>
>> An intriguing idea is to make a teachable bot:
>>
>> http://www.simonlaven.com/leo.htm
>>
>> This could result in a dialog like this:
>>
>> type: hello
>> response: I don't know what to say.
>> type: say: hello
>> response: hello
>> type: How are you?
>> response: I don't know what to say.
>> type: say: I'm fine, thanks. How are you?
>> response: I'm fine, thanks. How are you?
>> type: Goodbye
>> response: I dont' know what to say.
>> type say: Goodbye
>>
>> AIML is a way to give rules on how to respond to an input. It has a default
>> response when none of the rules are triggered. The default response in Alice
>> is randomly chosen from a set of alternatives. However, the default response
>> could always be 'I don't not what to say' or 'bitte'. The response 'say:'
>> could then trigger the engine to add the response as a rule.
>>
>> Another intriguing idea is to add the AIML engine to chat so that alice
>> could participate. In the AIML model, Alice would not enter the conversation
>> except in response to questions.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On 11/17/2012 05:45 AM, iaep-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
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