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When I try to use FAVOURITE GAME as keyword in AIML v2 (using Pandorabots) I get matches from * category, but not favourite game category. I have no idea what can be wrong.

For example for favourite game I get: Sorry, could you repeat in an other way?

<aiml>
  <!--POWITANIE-->
    <category>
        <pattern>HI #</pattern>
        <template>
            <random>
                <li>Yo!</li>
                <li>Hello!</li>
                <li>Welcome to my chatroom man</li>
                <li>Hi</li>
                <li>Nice to meet you, I'm Alfred</li>
            </random>
        </template>
    </category>
 
    <!--ULUBIONA GRA-->
    <category>
        <pattern># FAVOURITE # GAME #</pattern>
        <template> My favourite game is Starcraft2, and your? </template>
    </category>

      <!--NA BEZSENSOWNY INPUT-->
     <category>
        <pattern>*</pattern>
        <template>
            <random>
                <li>I have no idea what to say to you.</li>
                <li>I don't understand you.</li>
                <li>Sorry, could you repeat in an other way?</li>
            </random>
        </template>
    </category>

</aiml>
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If you say, "FAVORITE GAME" to your bot (without the U), I would strongly suspect the category would work. By default, the normal.substitution file for your bot will contain this entry:

["favourite", "favorite"],

This means that whenever anyone says, "FAVOURITE", the bot thinks you mean, "FAVORITE".

If you remove this entry, your bot will recognise "favourite" instead of "favorite" and your pattern will match.

Steve Worswick
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  • I am curious that the # symbol works in the element. I thought the wildcards had to be "_" or "*". – Ubercoder Oct 28 '21 at 15:47
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    With AIML 2, you now have # and ^ wildcard symbols. These are the same as _ and * wildcards but can represent zero or more words rather than one or more words. – Steve Worswick Oct 29 '21 at 11:19