Welcome to RiveScript.com

Welcome to the homepage of RiveScript, the chatterbot intelligence scripting language. If you're new to bot programming, or new to RiveScript, see the links under "New Botmasters" on the left navigation bar.

Note: this site is currently under active development. It's quite functional, but expect the occasional 404 error.

Recent Entries

A while ago I spoke with somebody from PurpleTree.org, a site that's developing an Artificial Intelligence creature named Libby. From their site,

"Purpletree is a non-for-profit group of developers that has a heavy interest in the field of vocal artificial intelligence, ANSI/Objective C, LISP, reverse engineering & the art of assembly/disassembly. We sometimes dabble in the realm of ai physics, ai law and deep ai theory too."

They were originally using AIML (artificial intelligence markup language) as a part of their system, but reached the limits of AIML as we all do from time to time, and discovered RiveScript.

So now there's officially more people that use RiveScript besides just me and the guy who wrote the original AIM prank, Chatting AIM Bot, around 2004. That makes at least three of us!

Here's a video about their project:

Visit their website at PurpleTree.org.

Categories: RiveScript, Users

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I've added a subversion repository where the "bleeding-edge" Perl RiveScript source code can be downloaded.

The general public gets readonly access. The repository can be checked out by running the following command on a unix-like system with subversion:

svn co http://svn.kirsle.net/repos/RiveScript-perl/trunk

You can also browse the repository in your web browser by linking to http://svn.kirsle.net/repos/RiveScript-perl.

If you want write access, you'll have to ask on the forums.

Categories: Perl, Subversion, RiveScript

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Version 1.18 of the Perl RiveScript interpreter has been released.

Significant new additions to the language:

• Topics can inherit triggers that belong to other topics.
• Using the ^Continue command while defining triggers now adds a lot more flexibility to trigger definitions.
• The # symbol for comments has been deprecated; use // from now on.
• New functions on the Perl end for saving/restoring the state of user variables and testing the last matched trigger.

The new version can be downloaded from the Interpreters page.

Categories: RiveScript, Perl

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The new version of the Perl RiveScript interpreter has been released. Get it from the RS Interpreters page. CPAN will publish the new version in a few hours.

Categories: RiveScript, Perl

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The "Downloads" page finally exists. It currently is a list of all the files that could be found on the root RiveScript site (which currently includes the Perl module and starter AIM bot template). Speaking of which, the starter AIM template has been updated to remove all of the backup files left behind by my text editor (the filenames ending in ~), which should be less confusing for Windows users now. :)

Categories: General

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The content management system for RiveScript.com has been updated to include all the new features (such as this blog) that was developed on my other site. Besides that, I also uploaded an RPM package for perl-RiveScript-1.15 for Linux users.

Categories: RiveScript

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