Discourse 3.0, our core chatbot engine is now live across this and our clients' sites.
Discourse 3.0 offers the following key new features:
- Improved AIML compatibility inlucing support for an additional 7 tags (this leaves the <javascript> tag as the only one not supported in any way - and we have plans for that)
- User configurable pre-processing, pronunciation, and banned words files
- Select AIML compliant or "easy use" support for some tags
- Use of the <input index> tag with the <that> tag so as to make replies dependent on previous user utterances, as well as that just said
- Simpler config file with all bot default utterances moved into AIML files for easier editing and wider AIML support.
- Initial support for triples storage of information, which will ultimately allow bots to draw deductions and make inferences about the information they know, track context better, and ultimately leverage the growing amount of RDF and topic map information on the web.
More information on these changes will be available in the Release Note to clients, and documentation is being updated.
