Artificial Intelligence MArkup Language: A Brief Tutorial

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive tutorial on AIML, detailing its syntax, semantics, and applications for developing chatterbots, including examples and system classifications to aid developers.

Contribution

It offers the first detailed tutorial on AIML language, combining theoretical background, practical examples, and system classifications for chatterbot development.

Findings

AIML uses pattern recognition principles for chatbot scripting.

The paper demonstrates AIML command usage with examples.

It classifies computer systems supporting AIML-based chatterbots.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to serve as a reference guide for the development of chatterbots implemented with the AIML language. In order to achieve this, the main concepts in Pattern Recognition area are described because the AIML uses such theoretical framework in their syntactic and semantic structures. After that, AIML language is described and each AIML command/tag is followed by an application example. Also, the usage of AIML embedded tags for the handling of sequence dialogue limitations between humans and machines is shown. Finally, computer systems that assist in the design of chatterbots with the AIML language are classified and described.