Program Y is a fully compliant AIML 2.1 chatbot framework written in Python 3. It includes an entire platform for building your own chat bots using Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, or AIML for short. For more information about Program-y, its features and its history then check out the Background page.

• Openchatbot support (client and server)
• Major NLP enhancements including direct support for stemming, lemmatisation, stopwords, ngrams, pos tagging and synsets. These are available as maps, sets and pre processors
• New question post processor that allows you to hand off retry of a question if the initial result is null.
• A number of bug fixes to rich media, pattern matching on _ and rest client
• Support for latest version of Pip
• Updated dependencies support all latest versions

For information about installing either via Git or Pip on OSX, Ubuntu and Windows go to Installation Instructions.

There are a number of ways you can get help

• Github Raise an issue directly
• Slack Talk live with the Dev Team
• Gitter Talk with the Dev Team
• Email (See below) although I don't check it every day
• Twitter, but more of an announcement channel