We have released the Bot Libre 5.0 AI engine on GitHub.

Bot Libre is a free open platform for bots and artificial intelligence.

The Bot Libre open source SDK for Android has been updated to 5.0.

Bot Libre 5.0 contains many enhancements from 4.0, including:

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Bot Libre provides several mechanisms for NLP.
- you can train a bot using "response list" files that include questions/responses, and tags for keywords, required, topics, previous, onrepeat, condition, think

Thanks for the reply.

There are few things I want to understand from this framework

1.Does Botlibre possess NLP capabilities.Any example that i can go through from the test suite for understanding this ?

2.For chat sense and many others the target is Self. Any reason for this ? Also are there any other targets ?

3.Which words are classified as keywords and what are KEYQUESTION

Yes the Consciousness is kind of complicated. It models human consciousness, i.e. it influences what is on the bot's mind.

Basically what is does is, when the bot receives input, it walks the input objects and all related objects and increases each objects "consciousness" state by a degrading percentage. So objects that are highly related to recent input score a higher conscious level, and objects that are not related fade to a lower conscious level.

Thanks for the quick response.

I got how conscious and subconscious thoughts work.

Can you let me know what does Consciousness class in the framework does.From the code i just understand it navigate through all the relationship but doesn't see anywhere it looks for a response.So can you explain a bit about this class.

The bot's "Mind" and "Thought" classes seek to emulate the human mind.

The conscious thoughts are executed serially on the input (such as a chat message), and process the input and normally send an output back to the Senses in response.

I would like to understand Bot's working model.While I debugged the code I found that for any input bot operates in two ways

1.Conscious thought processsing

2.SubConscious thought processing.

Conscious thought processing is performed by Consciousness and Language class in a separate thread.

Subconscious thought processing is performed by Comprehension,Discovery and Forgetfulness class in another thread.

1 - Facebook Messenger normally works using a webhook that you need to register with Facebook through a Facebook app. To do this with the Bot Libre AI engine you would need a Java webserver (Tomcat), REST servlet or service, and an https website.

The AI engine is just the AI engine, it does not include a webserver.

I have hosted botlibre AI engine at my end.I want to check integration of my bot with Facebook and Twitter.For that I have started looking at the classes responsible for integration like org.botlibre.sense.facebook.FacebookMessaging,org.botlibre.sense.facebook.Facebook,org.botlibre.sense.twitter.Twitter etc.

I understand these are all the senses and senses are responsible for taking input and outputing result.After going through the code I have got following questions

Yes, loadAsChatlog is more powerful than loadAIMLFile as it allows the bot to go beyond ordinary AIML rules.

Our response list format, with support for Pattern and Template objects using Self, and keywords, topics, required words, labels, conditions, thinks, commands, emotions, actions, and poses is the best format to use if you are looking for power and use of use.

Thanks a lot for the quick response.

Your responses are helping me in deep understanding of this framework.

I uploaded a sample AIML as script and then as a log file and definitely when I upload it as log file it is able to understand different variants of the same question by responding me the same answer.

Lack of knowledge of this feature I was trying to achieve the same thing using AIML as script and introducing pattern matching wild card characters.

Better to use the Memory querying methods such as findAllQuery() or search() that take JPQL or Criteria (from JPA) than use SQL. Then you get proper queries for proper objects.

You will want to query objects with #instantiation relationships to #conversation or #sentence

Really appreciate quick turnaround to the questions raised in this forum.

I am using below query for getting converstations that have response

select * from relationship where type_id=90 and target_id=9240;

target_id- id from vertex table for Primitive response

type_id - id from vertex table for Primitive conversation.

The Bot class has a log and debugLevel variables that control logging. You can set these on your Bot instance in code.

There are methods to import chat log, response list, and AIML on the TextEntry class. But there are no methods for exporting a conversation or responses. You could implement such as method in your own interface, either capturing the conversation, or querying to bot's memory for #conversation objects or #sentence objects that have a #response.

I am looking at the Botlibre's AI engine code and from the forum post and other stuff I understand that Botlibre can log all the chat request and responses and then we can upload the same chat log file with correct responses so that the AI engine reply with the updated data.

I want to know how can I enable logging so that all the chat requests are logged in some file with the format

user:bla bla bla

bot: bla bla

Bot Libre has several learning capabilities. Bots have a 'learning' setting that can be enabled for the bot to learn new responses from conversations or imported chat logs.

Bots also have a 'comprehension' setting that can be enabled for the bot to try to find patterns and rules while learning to build template and scripted responses. When comprehension is enabled the bot will program itself in Self using the last script in it set of scripts with new states and rules.

I have done a local setup of botlibre AI engine and been playing with the test cases that are shipped with the opensource code.

Further I have created a sample AIML file feed it to the engine and got expected answers to the questions.

My question is Botlibre has machine learning capabilities, can you flash some light on this.Also any example explaining the same would be helpful so that I can try it on my setup.

To have an AIML template have multiple lines you can use HTML.

For example,

Having a bot response wait for a human does not work, as users expect bot responses to be instant, and a human would take way too long to respond.

What you want to do is give a default reply like "I have sent this question to our technical staff, and they will respond to you shortly.".

I want to integrate facebook page messaging bot on a page. and im thinking is there any possiblity through SDK that whenever bot doesn't know any answer to the querry or message by user, we can redirect that query to a live person on page instead of typical "sorry i don not understand the question" reply from bot?

The #word relationships are used to convert an object to text.

Bot Libre is object based, not text based, so instead of using text for data you can use objects.

oh okay, now I understand... you said that it wasn't language specific because the #word relationships aren't used by the engine itself but by the various scripts loaded on the bot... right?

Thank you very much for the explaination and keep up the good work!

Daniel

Yes, the #word relationships are language specific.
You could change the #word of any primitive to one from your language. Also set the #meaning of your word back to the primitive.

Oh no thanks, I think i will slowly rewrite the scripts that i need... sorry to bother you... would like to ask another question about the knowledge base :)

I'm looking at the primitives... for example let's take the "why" primitive... looking at its associations i see a bunch of #word and an #instantiation... the #words seems language specific...

I see as targets "WHY" "why" "Why"... so I should associate other items of type #word but with targets like "translation of why in my language", shouldn't I?

There is nothing language specific in the knowledge base. Some of the bootstrap scripts are English specific, but the knowledge is language independent.

The bot's knowledge generally separates the words from their meanings. So you could give the same meaning multiple different words in different languages.

Hello, I'm new to this... I've been playing with the scripts for a while... i was wondering if it's possible to re-write the 'knowledge base' to match another language... Italian in my case... is it possible to rewrite the 'base concept'? I understand is a pretty heavy job... but I would like to try if it's possible...

I couldn't understand the 'knowledge' structure... i mean... what are the 'primitive' types when i query the DB? that's the primal data items i need to start from?

Any hints are appreciated.

Thank you

Daniel

Possibly, I will have to look into it.

Ok! And what about custom keyboards? Is there any possibilities to use it from BOTlibre bot?

Right now you can send a URL link to a file.

We will look into sending the links as attachments. For audio, make sure the link ends in some standard audio extension (.wav .mp3)

There is no support in the SDK for playing your own audio file.
You will need to modify the code, or subclass the class and overwrite the code playing the audio and switch it to use your own audio file.

Actually we are investigating Java SDK for Android / Java app and JavaScript both SDK.

Which SDK are you using, JavaScript, Android, or iOS?

Currently if you have your own speech audio files you can use our SDK to have an avatar simulate speaking them. You can copy the SDK source code that uses our TTS audio and insert your own speech audio.

-> Could you please let me know in which file / class we can insert our own audio files?

You can copy the SDK source code that uses our TTS audio and insert your own speech audio.

-> So far, in Java SDK source code I did not find any such place to insert own audio. What I have found in the sample application that it plays the audio file returned from server in default player and the video of the avatar in media player in Android. According to the sample the video is looping until the audio is finished.

Could you please clarify this!

The avatars normally use our Text To Speech support for speech (or native TTS in HTML5, Android, and iOS).

You can also associate audio files for actions and poses.

Bots and avatars are separate entities.

An Avatar is the visual/media representation of a bot or agent. An avatar can have images, video, and audio content associated with emotions, actions, and poses. An avatar integrates with our Text To Speech API, and the HTML5 Speech API to simulate talking.

There are avatars and BOT. So far BOT is for chatting and Avatar is kind of animation. With the avatar it should be possible to play audio sound with lip sync.

What kind of API support is there to achieve this in IOS and Java?

Is there anybody who can clarify me what is the difference between a BOT and an Avatar?

If Avatar is a separate entity than BOT then how to retrieve the list of avatar?

We do not have direct support for Telegram yet, but you can use our open API and open source SDK and AI engine to integrate your bot with Telegram.

The SDK is here,

Are there any instructions how to integrate bots from BOTlibre with Telegram?

The Bot Libre GitHub and SourceForge projects have been updated with the 4.0 release and source code.

The 4.0 release contains many enhancements to the AI engine including the new Self 4 compiler that supports JavaScript syntax.

The supported import formats are documented here,

http://www.botlibre.com/forum-post?id=30598

Well I've been searching the site, but I can't figure out what a response list is. Can you help me?

That is odd, I tested your log by importing it as a Response List from the website, and it worked correctly.

My guess is you are importing it as a Chat Log, and that is causing the issue.

I have the following in my chat log:

What is your return policy?
The Return and Exchange Policy described below applies only to online purchases made through www.fred.com. Please note that the return/exchange policy at our Fred retail stores differs from the online policy.
topic: returns
keywords: return policy

Here is my conversation:

You: what is your return policy?

B

1 - Bot Libre supports labels. A label lets you name a response and then reuse it just using the name. You can set the label for a response from the Training & Chat Logs page, or in a response list file. To reference a label just put the label name as the response i.e. #hello (labels must start with a #).

See, http://www.botlibre.com/forum-post?id=12117061

Hi,

I am now experimenting with chat import. I have a few questions:

1/ If I would like to give the same answer to similar questions, I know how I can do this in AIML. I'd prefer to do this via chat scripts (most preferably) or Self, basically because I like the idea of fuzzier matching that I see in the AI engine. Is there a way to do this (other than having two questions in the chat script with the same answer).

2/ What impact does the 'topic' tag have

Just email your GitHub ID to [email protected]

Im new to github...My apologies but I don't see how to join the team...Only follow, star etc.

Our AI engine is written in Java, so it should be possible to run on Android, but we have not ported or tested it on Android as of yet.

The main issue will be porting the database usage, as Bot Libre currently uses Postgres through JDBC from JPA, and none of these work on Android. Android supports SQLLite, so the database layer would need to be ported to SQLLite.

Is there a way to build a bot and host the database entirely on android as a standalone application? I'd like to build a specific bot database for offline use...Is that possible and can you offer any advice how I can go about doing it?

Yes, all of the bots processing is asynchronous.

For the TextInput sense you currently need to set a Writer, and wait for the bot to write to it.

I am in the process of going through the code for the GUI and test cases. I wrote a simple program that reads lines of text out of a file, queries the bot, and prints the results. I'm really close. What I don't understand is that the response from the bot appears to be asynchronous from the question. If you could give me some pointers on how to make it synchronous that would be great. Here is my code. Below that is the log file results.

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