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| 300 users |
Date: 21 Dec 2007 |
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Hi all Ysalaya visitors and botmasters.
Today, we are three hundreds, 300 registered users !!!.
Ysalaya has a good search result at Google:
free bot hosting
chatbot hosting
This good result mean that your chatbot can be visited
by many surfers on the web.
I wish you a Merry Christmas
and I hope you have very good times
for the end of the Year 2007. |
| The forums are opened! |
Date: 9 Aug 2007 |
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The forums are the place to discuss and to share knowledge about chatbots:
The Ysalaya help is a great place to learn more about the Ysalaya technology: |
| Ysalaya update |
Date: 13 Jul 2007 |
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Since a week, Ysalaya has been updated: new java version and new database driver. It is stable, no more server crash during 7 days.
I still wonder why most of the botmaster only create empty bot. It is only for curiosity? Is Ysalaya too much complicated to feed the bot ?
What do you think about the current Ysalaya version?
All the feedbacks are welcome via email at support@ysalaya.org |
| The great bot futur! |
Date: 26 May 2007 |
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The futur of chatbot will be great: they will be used to animate website on Internet and on Intranet.
What will happen if a chatbot is able to pump all the content of your website in one shot? and if your chatbot is able to answer to question on your site content in an intelligent way?
Imagine that your chatbot is able to know what you plublished on your website. That's simply means the bot content is made of your website content.
Imagine that your chatbot is able to answer to the visitor questions based on your website content. You will not input one question, one answer, one question, one answer. You will only ask your bot to real-time learn your website content. The answer will be found by the usage of the language.
We beleive that the chatbot futur will be great! People will be able to easily use bot on their website to present themself and to animate their creation with a 24H a day virtual avatar.
We beleive that the chatbot futur will be great! Companies will be able to use chatbots to manage their knowledge, to answer to question of visitors, to help employees.
We beleive that the chatbot futur will be great! Search engines will be improved by the use of shared language, intelligent ... :+) answers to questions.
Yes, it is not a dream it is something possible ... Of course today, we cannot say that the chatbot will be intelligent, they seems to be ... Human Intelligent is Human, Artificial Intelligence is Artificial, Bot Intelligent is Virtual like a magic tips that can impress the visitor sometimes.
We are only at the beginning of the great bot adventure! Like we were ten years ago when Internet started for a larg public. Who know what will happen ... Who knows what the bot will be ...
In the mean time, be patient and tolerant.
Any feedback is welcome. |
| New chatbot concept |
Date: 26 May 2007 |
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Ysalaya is based on great new bot concepts:- Bot's memory with inovating tags
- like tag
- repeat tag
- unknow tag
- intro tag
- The use of language
- Word redirection
- Answer to unknown questions
- Avoid to be a parrot
- Share the language
- The use of the web strenght
- Insert HTML code
- Display pictures
- Open or redirect to other sites
- Show movies
All this concept are already inside the current Ysalaya code. Some of them are still under experimentation. The kernel is not really optimized and thus the server could crash...
Anyway, we still believe that Ysalaya is a great new innovating chatbot concept. |
| The server crashes |
Date: 26 May 2007 |
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Ysalaya still have some problems:- The server can be down when viewing the bot content with a lot of entries
- The server can crash when there are many and many different answers to the same question with various combinations like 'like tag' 'keyword'
The code will be optimized in the next month.
If the server crashed when you create your bot,
please come back latter and continue your job.
To turn around this issue, please avoid to view the content
when entering questions and answers.
If the server comes down, there is nothing to do
than to wait that the server is manually restarted.
The Ysalaya bot-hosting code will be improved soon.
Enjoy ... |
| Help update |
Date: 12 May 2007 |
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The botmaster help is updated: there is a new chapter on the parrot.
Your bot can become a parrot if it replies the same answer each time the visitor ask the same question.
Read the parrot bot article to know how to improve your bot: http://help.ysalaya.org/en/intermediate/help.htm
At help.ysalaya.org, botmasters can find a great help on the Ysalaya free bot creation. |
| Ysalaya debug |
Date: 12 May 2007 |
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Ysalaya is better now: a critical bug has just been corrected. The [Know Me!] feature will not crash the server again!
The website performances are really increased during the bot creation. For example, with the Lucy chatbot, it takes less time to view all the bot content (10 times faster! how is it possible :+). The processor is much less busy during this operation.
Now, botmasters and visitors can play at the same time. It is a minimal requirement for a bot hosting website!
The code will be optimized again in the next weeks.
Enjoy! |
| Ysalaya news |
Date: 12 May 2007 |
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Hi dear Ysalaya users,
I am very proud that new botmasters register regullary at www.ysalaya.org. And it is a great motivation that visitors come every day to chat with Lucy. The dialogs starts to be interesting, funny and quite 'intelligent'. I improve Lucy almost three times per week.
There is a server overload when several users are connected at the same time: the server falls down! Completely down! And Tomcat (the Java server) needs to be restarted manually. I do my best to optimize the code every week. It is very interesting but quite long.
Use the language is a main advantage of Ysalaya. When the visitor say 'color', the bot could answer about 'red', 'blue' and 'green'. One main target is to simplify the bot creation. One day, the botmaster will be able to enter only answers. And the bot will find its way to reply by linking the visitor's words and the bot's sentences. Botmaster will only write bot knowledge. Everybody will share the language. It is a great project, interesting but quite long... (once again!)
So Ysalaya is alive and will continue!
Enjoy! |
| Lucy in the contest |
Date: 1 May 2007 |
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Hi all,
Lucy had a very bad score in the first test of the www.chatterboxchallenge.com
It is easy to develop a chatbot who can answer to specific question. In this case, it is necessary to enter many many question / answer. It is long and difficult to improve the content, because it is not so easy to imagine the different questions.
Lucy is designed in a different approach: optimize the bot answer to unknown question. The approach is quite different: it is not automatic answer to known question. An unknown question could be totally unknown or could be partially unknown (just a few words are known by the bot).
Well I admit that if the Lucy content could be improved a little with some generic questions then she could be better. Well ... I apologize for this bad score to the first dialog test. I was very busy these days.
Ysalaya is also a bot hosting website. If you enter many and many question and answer, you could have a good score. Try and improve your bot.
Enjoy! |
| New feature: like card |
Date: 11 Mar 2007 |
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Use the like card to answer to several visitor questions.
Read more at intermediate help
Example:
question: % it is fine %
answer: cool, I like that
answer: I agree with you
visitor: it is fine to chat with you
bot: cool, I like that
visitor: sure it is fine!
bot: I agree with you
It is different from the WILD CARD because the WILD CARD includes the visitor words in the bot answer.
Enjoy! |
| Best practices |
Date: 8 Mar 2007 |
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The best practices are describes at help.ysalaya.org.
There are state of art to use the Ysalaya bots for newbie, intermediate and expert.
The help pages are improved almost every two or tree days.
Enjoy! |
| More help |
Date: 5 Mar 2007 |
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The help pages are better now:Go to help.ysalaya.org
Thanks very much to all the new botmasters:
it gives a great motivation for me to continue Ysalaya.
Most of the new botmasters only input a few lines in their new bot.
Maybe it is a matter of understanding how Ysalaya works.
The next step will be to:- write more help pages
- improve the kernel
- input more content in Lucy
Frederic |
| New feature: search |
Date: 5 Mar 2007 |
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The exploration of the bot content is improved by a search on:- Memory type
- Language type
- Keyword
When the bot content is big, it is more easy to find what the bot knows and more easy to improve your free bot on http://www.ysalaya.org
Enjoy! |
| New feature: repeat depth |
Date: 2 Mar 2007 |
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Now the botmaster can setup the repeat depth in a dialog.
The repeat depth is a way to answer when the visitor repeat the same thing several times. If yes and if there is some _repeat_ tag in the memory, then the bot will not repeat himself, he will take the answer from one of the possible _repeat_ answers.
Example:
If the repeat depth is set to 2, the dialog could be:
visitor: hello
bot: hi there
visitor: hello
bot: nice to meet you
visitor: hello
bot: what ?
visitor: hello
bot: you repeat yourself!!!
To use this feature go to the dialog page and enter _repeat_ tag as question and enter more than two answer for this specific question.
A specific answer when the user repeats his question, can make the bot more active in the dialog.
Enjoy! |
| Kernel improvment |
Date: 28 Feb 2007 |
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The kernel has been improved.
Thanks to all the new botmasters, I discovered some bugs.
Because everyone has his own approach to create bots
I learn a lot with new chatbot even with a few sentence inside.
Now the algorithm is better.
Enjoy! |
| New features |
Date: 25 Feb 2007 |
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The dialog can be filtered by:- Period: last day, last 3 days,last week, last month,
last quarter, last year, since creation - IP: specific IP, all IPs, botmaster IP
The content (memory or language) can be filtered by:- Period: last day, last 3 days, last week, last month,
last quarter, last year, since creation
These new features are accessible on the dialog page after a click on the [Dialog] button or on the [Know me] buttons. |
| Chatterboxchallenge |
Date: 14 Jan 2007 |
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| Lucybot.org |
Date: 19 Nov 2006 |
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Lucy has a great new website... It is mainly to work on the Ysalaya bot kernel, to improve the chatbot capabilities.
www.lucybot.org |
| Ysalaya in French |
Date: 19 Nov 2006 |
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The Ysalaya French site is on-line. You will find a wiki and a blog in French.
France |
| Ysalaya Blog |
Date: 19 Nov 2006 |
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The Ysalaya blog is on-line. You will know all about the webmaster feelings...
Blog |
| Ysalaya wiki |
Date: 19 Nov 2006 |
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The Ysalaya Wiki is on-line. Its target is to help all the botmasters to create good Ysalaya chatbots. All the visitors are invited to improve it.
Wiki |
| Plenty of new features! |
Date: 19 Nov 2006 |
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Hi, today I add plenty of new features:- Bot sites: Ysalaya is a bot hosting website so the target is to allow the botmaster to pu bot on their website. You can now publish the address of your website where you bot is.
- Bot news: botmasters can write news on their chatbots (ie: update in the memory, new site, and so on
- Bot Comments: the visitors can write comments on the bot, they can write about the dialog with the Ysalaya chatbots
- Bot content: The botmaster can publish some contents to help the other botmaster to start or to improve their bots.
- Bot team: now you can work with friends to create a chatbot. A bot team is a group of users allowed to add, edit, and delete content.
- Private messages: the botmasters can receive private message from users, just communicate together and the world will be better ... :+)
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| Design your bot page |
Date: 23 Oct 2006 |
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You can design the visitor page for your bot:- The templates are used to understand and to start in a minute. View
- The markers are included to make the page working. View
- Publish your modifications on-line
- Archive up to 10 of your designs
You can now design your bot page as you want. Use your own CSS and fully customized the visitor page of your bot.
There is only a few mandatory markers.
You can always use the Ysalaya default design with all the teach me, know me buttons and so on.
There is light design with only a text for field for the question and the memory of the dialog. |
| New HTML tag |
Date: 16 Oct 2006 |
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Now, you can directly enter an HTML link into the bot answer.
In the answer, simply write a link (ie: http://www.ysalaya.org) and the link will be displayed as a classical HTML link in the dialog. http://www.ysalaya.org
You can always use the HTML link syntax with _'_ inside to customize the link. |
| Smiley in the bot answer |
Date: 13 Oct 2006 |
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The bots reply with smilies into the answer.
Simply enter the smiley code in the answer text like :D and the smiley image will be displayed during the dialog.
Read the smiley page to know all the available smilies. |
| Download the bot content |
Date: 9 Oct 2006 |
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Now, the botmaster can download the bot content from the dialog page.- Download the memory
- Download the language
The content comes in a text file.
The syntax is the same than for the Upload feature.
Example:
word;word;
question;answer;
You can use the download and the uplaod functions to update your bot. OpenOffice or Excel can be used to deal with bot content. |
| Upload the bot content |
Date: 7 Oct 2006 |
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The great upload feature is on-line!
From a text file, you can upload the bot content. Simply write your bot content off-line and quietly upload it on the Ysalaya site.
The file syntax is easy- question;answer;
- word;word;word;
You can include all the bot features in the file:- wildcard _*_
- intro text
- repeated questions
- unknown questions
- include words
- exclude words
Memory example:
who are you?;I am Lucy;
where do you live?;I live on the web;
Language example:
red;blue;green;
ok;good;great;
The file can be a text file or a csv file.
The upload feature is a good way to make it easier to feed the bot.
In the next future, there will be some file examples to download for the botmasters and newbies.
Enjoy! |
| Upload the memory |
Date: 5 Oct 2006 |
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One great features will be available soon...- Upload the element content
With this feature you will be able to upload a text file to feed you bot. So, the botmaster should be able to write the bot content into a text editor in a natural way, just like writen a text. After the upload function will allow to input the content very easily. |
| New Features |
Date: 5 Oct 2006 |
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There are two new features for the language:- Include words:link visitor words to bot words to have a good answer to a visitor question
- Exclude words:
avoid to search for some specific words
There are improved features for the language:- Intro: click on one radio button to input bot introduction
- Repeat: click on one radio button to input answer when the visitor asks the same things several times
- Unknown: click on one radio button to input answer to unknown questions
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| The chatbot questions |
Date: 30 Aug 2006 |
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Sometimes it can be hard to imagine the bot content... What can the visitor say? What are the most popular questions?- Some visitor's questions are published on the docs site
The question list will be updated on a regular basis.
The answer are let to the botmaster imagination!
Enjoy! |
| Input HTML content! |
Date: 30 Aug 2006 |
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All the bots can accept HTML tag into their memory.The only constraint is to put a _'_ and not to put _"_.
So you can have HTML formatted answers! |
| New tags: repeat and unknown |
Date: 30 Aug 2006 |
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There are two new tags to deal with specific visitor actions:- _repeat_if a visitor repeats the same question, the bot can answer something special if there is at least one question with the _repeat_tag and one answer to it.
- _unknown_: if the bot is enable to find an answer to a visitor question, and if there is a couple of question with the _unknown_ tag then the bot will say this specific answer.
- _intro_: kind reminder, the _intro_ tag is used to present the bot when the visitor comes in at the first time.
If there are several question / answer with the _repeat_, _unknown_ or _intro_ tag, then the specific answer is randomly taken into the various existing answer according to the tag.
The _repeat_ tag is a way to avoid the visitor to scan the bot content while repeating the same thing or is a way to try to push the visitor somewhere when he/she repeats.
The _unknown_ tag is a way to gently explain that the bot has no answer to the question, it is a way to suggest other questions.
Take care: input many _unknown_ answers to make a good bot.
If you have the _unknown_ tag into the bot, the answers to all the unknown questions will come ONLY from the answer linked to the question with _unknown_ tag.
You can image how it can be if you have only one answer to unknown question! :+)
Enjoy! |
| The signs in the questions |
Date: 26 Aug 2006 |
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The management of the signs is improved. The signs are _?_ _!_ _._ _,_.
The botmaster can enter the bot question with or without the signs.
The visitor can ask a question with or without the signs.
The Ysalaya kernel will match the visitor question to the bot question in any case.
Data example:
bot question: how are you?
bot answer: I am fine! and you?
Dialog example
visitor question: how are you
bot answer: I am fine! and you?
visitor question: how are you??!
bot answer: I am fine! and you ? |
| Two documents are on-line |
Date: 22 Aug 2006 |
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| All the users can read this two documents:They are presented in the docs.ysalaya.org |
| New site +1 |
Date: 17 Aug 2006 |
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Hi all, there is a new site to demonstrate the Ysalaya Technology:- The newbie: a very tin bot to introduce the Ysalaya technology
Thi site is new and empty today. Come back soon. |
| Kernel update |
Date: 16 Aug 2006 |
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The bot kernel is updated:- Less parrot: a part of the question is not included in the answer
- Text improvment: input a text, skip the question, input words and get answer without any questions!
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| Introduction text (bot feature) |
Date: 13 Aug 2006 |
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There is a new feature in the dialog: the bot can say something to start the dialog when the visitor has just enter, when the dfialog starts.
The introduction text is setup by the botmaster at the creation, modify and dialog pages.You can enter several intro text. The tag is _intro_ in the question field.
Read the contextual help on the dialog page to learn more about the introduction text of a bot in a dialog. |
| New sites +3 |
Date: 13 Aug 2006 |
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Hi all, there are tree new sites to demonstrate the Ysalaya Technology:- The teacher: how can you use a Ysalaya bot to make a great teacher!
- The translator: how can you use a Ysalaya bot to make a great translator!
- David: parle Français. David is a French chatbot, bot, chatterbot
This sites are new and empty today. Come back soon. |
| New sites +4 |
Date: 12 Aug 2006 |
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- Lucy: the page of Lucy. She is the first Ysalaya bot, so nice ... to demonstrate the Ysalaya technology
- Search Engine: the page of the Ysalaya Search Engine to show that the technology can also be used as a configurable search engine.
- Data mining: this page to present the possibilities to deal with data mining using the Ysalaya Technology.
- GUM bot: this page is about a French mountain club: the GUM. A great place to meet people and to do activities in the French Alps surroundings Grenoble. This bot is in French.
There are a few sites in progress at the same time. They are all new and can be a little bit empty... be patient and come back regulary to appreciate the progress. Thanks! |
| Updated pages |
Date: 12 Aug 2006 |
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| The FAQ, the news and the links page are updated. Now they are more easy to ready: view all the content in a single page..The bot list is lighter with more possible configurations |
| Some bugs are fixed |
Date: 4 Aug 2006 |
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These bugs are fixed:- user registration: you can get the activation key!
- bug list is fixed: you can submit bugs
- user feedback: you can send feedback
The bug list is here.
The user feedbacks are here
Anonymous user can submit bugs and feedbacks. |
| New home page |
Date: 4 Aug 2006 |
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| The new Ysalaya logo is on-line. It has a green background which is soft. It is less agressive than the black background. |
| New docs center |
Date: 31 Jul 2006 |
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Various documentation on Ysalaya are now available at docs.ysalaya.org.- Explore the ultimate docs on Ysalaya
- Understand how it works
- Discover some secrets
docs.ysalaya.org is another great help on Ysalaya. |
| New pages |
Date: 31 Jul 2006 |
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Hi all, the new home page is on-line. There is the famous ... Ysalaya logo on the top.
The new support page is also available: you can discover all about the great Ysalaya support:- Contextual help
- The docs center
- Submit a bug
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| Discover bot strategy |
Date: 19 Jul 2006 |
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A new FAQ is on-line: it gives a way to create the bot memory.
Learn how you can have fun to imagine the bot content. Forget the bot techno and play like an actor: think like your bot. Read more |
| New web links |
Date: 30 Jun 2006 |
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| Today we add a lot of links. Discover the famous bot hosting websites. View what can be done with other bot technology like AIML. Appreciate the difference of the Ysalaya Technology. |
| The forums are open |
Date: 20 Jun 2006 |
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The forums are great to publish bot dialogs.
The registered users can exchange on bot technology, can share tips. The forums is the famous public area to discuss all together on the Ysalaya technology. |
| Bug panel |
Date: 16 Jun 2006 |
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The visitors and the botmasters can declare bugs.
As the bot hosting website is quiet complex, there can always be some bugs in the interface or in the bot kernel. As the user test is the best ... way to improve the software everybody can declare a bug on-line. The declaration can be anonymous. |
| Feedback panel |
Date: 10 Jun 2006 |
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User feedback is very important to improve the website quality.
The feedback page is on-line: you can send your feelings to us, just fill in the easy-to-write form. Feedback can be anonymous. On the feedback panel you can view the comments from the others users. |
| Version control |
Date: 29 May 2006 |
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Now, the botmaster can release versions of their bot
Version of the memory and version of the language can be mixed. The versions can be public or private. The public version is used by the visitors. The private version is used to increase the bot content. Version control is accessible to botmaster on the dialog page. |
| Wildcard feature |
Date: 3 May 2006 |
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Wild cards are available
The bot answer can include a part of the visitor question. The syntax is "_*_".
question: I love _*_
answer: yes, _*_ are great!
Examples:
question: my name is John
answer: nice to meet you John
question: I love pizza
answer: yes ! pizza are great |
| Version 2 is on-line |
Date: 26 Apr 2006 |
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The Ysalaya version 2 is on-line!
The new version has great improvment on the kernel: better search of relevant answers. Great visitors features like anonymous teachning and know me button.
The Ysalaya version two is much more easy-to-handdle. The memory and the language are both displayed on the same page. The input interface can be seen at the same time with the content interface. Create and check your works on the same screen. |
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