A Tutorial For Adding Knowledge to Your Robot

Glossary

Input Pattern
The input sentence (or sentences) provided to the robot.


Template
An abbreviation for response template.


Response Template
The Response Template is either a response or a program to generate a response.


Category
An Input Pattern (including optional variants of <that> and <topic>, along with a Response Template.


Pattern Matching
A capability of matching input sentences against stored sentences.


Knowledge Web (aka Graph Master)
A representation of the categories in a Pandorabot.


Ultimate Default Category
When the input sentence fails to match any category.


Default Category
<topic> and <that> can each have a default category.


Default Response Template
what is said when nothing is matched.


XML
a markup/programming language.


AIML
a markup/programming language implementing knowledge content. AIML is a subset of XML.


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