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Stephan
Stephan

Reputation: 43013

How to handle multiple questions within one utterance?

Sample:

User: How old are you and where do you live ?
Alice: I'm 7 months old. I live on earth.

My try: 

<category>
    <pattern>WHERE DO YOU LIVE</pattern>
    <template>I live on earth.</template>
</category>

<category>
    <pattern>HOW OLD ARE YOU</pattern>
    <template>I'm 7 months old.</template>
</category>

The above AIML code can only reply if I ask the two questions separately.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 205

Answers (2)

Steve Worswick
Steve Worswick

Reputation: 905

You could also use wildcards to improve this. Now we can answer things like, "How are you and where is London"

<category>
    <pattern>HOW _ AND WHERE *</pattern>
    <template>
        <srai>HOW <star/></srai>
        <srai>WHERE <star index="2"/></srai>
    </template>
</category>

Upvotes: 1

Stephan
Stephan

Reputation: 43013

By digging into AIML syntax, I finally found a solution with the <srai> tag:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE inline_dtd[
<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
]>
<aiml version="2.0">
    <category>
        <pattern>WHERE DO YOU LIVE</pattern>
        <template>I live on earth.</template>
    </category>

    <category>
        <pattern>HOW OLD ARE YOU</pattern>
        <template>I'm 7 months old.</template>
    </category>

    <category>
        <pattern>HOW OLD ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU LIVE</pattern>
        <template>
            <srai>HOW OLD ARE YOU</srai>
            &nbsp;
            <srai>WHERE DO YOU LIVE</srai>
        </template>
    </category>
</aiml>

Upvotes: 1

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