Re: AIML and finite state machines

Like Richard says, there are a number of ways that you can alter the
response depending on the internal state of a person.

In earlier discussions (recommend searching the mailing list for this) we
have often talked about a mechanism to display emotion depending upon the
type of inputs a person would send to your bot. Often this system would
incorporate some kind of quadrant of different emotional states and use a
counter to keep track of the internal state.

There are of course more ways of doing this. You may even use a different
engine to determine the state and then feed its value into the AIML
interpretation engine to use in the response generation. This is up to you.

Kind regards,

Anne.

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Van: alicebot-general-bounces@...
[mailto:alicebot-general-bounces@...] Namens Dr. Rich Wallace
Verzonden: donderdag 26 februari 2009 9:20
Aan: Alicebot and AIML General Discussion
Onderwerp: Re: [alicebot-general] AIML and finite state machines

Hello, some people use the AIML <topic> tag to vary the responses
based on the state of the <topic> value.

You can also make the responses dependent on AIML predicates with
<get> and <set>:

<category>
  <pattern>WHAT IS MY NAME</pattern>
  <template>
    <condition name="name">
      <li value="*">Your name is <get name="name"/>.</li>
      <li>You haven't told me your name yet.</li>
    </condition>
  </template>
</category>


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:15 PM, lordsme <lordsme@...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new to AIML, so please be patient if my question has a obvious answer
or
> so on.
>
> I'm doing a little research to discover if there's a way of incorporate
the
> concept of the finite state machines in AIML, in order to create a
> bot/character who answers in different ways depending on his internal
state.
>
> Is there a way to define this states directly with AIML, or another
language
> is needed to define the states along with a different/hybrid parser?
> Thank you!
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