The Aine Language is based on AIML. If you have existing .aiml files that you want to use with AINE, you can convert them using one of the tools included with ainebot. There are sources for a C program called aiml_convert in the folder extras/aiml_convert. Just type 'make' from there (if you are on Unix/Linux) to create the program. There is a also a bash script convertor called aiml2aine in the folder extras/aiml2aine. While much slower than the C program above, this script version will handle some AIML(XML) tags which are not recognized by aiml_convert. It can also indent the output files for you, to make them easier to read. Either tool allows you to convert all your .aiml files to .aine files, one by one. NOTE: Files converted using these converters may NOT be ready to use, without some manual tweaking. You will, most probably, will have to fix some things before using the new files (punctuation in THAT, fix some condition tags, etc.) There are some nice web sites about writing clever things in AIML - most of those tricks also work in Aine Language, so you may be interested: http://www.alicebot.org http://www.aiml.info http://www.aitools.org