diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4e2c998..d887e52 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -25,5 +25,6 @@
 # corpus files
 data
 **/*.corpus.json
+**/*.yml
 **/*.gob
 **/stopwords.txt
diff --git a/bot/corpus/corpus.go b/bot/corpus/corpus.go
index 0a3e219..6ce6c2f 100644
--- a/bot/corpus/corpus.go
+++ b/bot/corpus/corpus.go
@@ -2,10 +2,19 @@ package corpus
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
 
+type Corpus struct {
+	Categories    []string   `json:"categories"`
+	Conversations [][]string `json:"conversations"`
+}
+
 func LoadCorpora(filePaths []string) (map[string][][]string, error) {
 	result := make(map[string][][]string)
 
@@ -23,15 +32,45 @@ func LoadCorpora(filePaths []string) (map[string][][]string, error) {
 }
 
 func readCorpus(file string) (map[string][][]string, error) {
-	var result map[string][][]string
-
-	if f, err := os.Open(file); err != nil {
+	f, err := os.Open(file)
+	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
-	} else if content, err := ioutil.ReadAll(f); err != nil {
+	}
+
+	ext := filepath.Ext(file)
+	content, err := ioutil.ReadAll(f)
+	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
-	} else if err := json.Unmarshal(content, &result); err != nil {
+	}
+
+	ret, err := unmarshal(ext, content)
+	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
-	} else {
-		return result, nil
 	}
+
+	return ret, nil
+}
+
+func unmarshal(ext string, content []byte) (map[string][][]string, error) {
+	var corpus Corpus
+	ret := make(map[string][][]string)
+
+	switch ext {
+	case ".json":
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(content, &corpus); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	case ".yml", ".yaml":
+		if err := yaml.Unmarshal(content, &corpus); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	default:
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown file type: %s", ext)
+	}
+
+	for _, v := range corpus.Categories {
+		ret[v] = corpus.Conversations
+	}
+
+	return ret, nil
 }
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index e2baf3b..5582b2f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ go 1.15
 require (
 	github.com/tal-tech/go-zero v1.2.1
 	github.com/wangbin/jiebago v0.3.2
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0
 )