Chatbot-App

General

This app is a simple website that utilizes a pretrained chatbot model to offer a more interactive experience to the user. The purpose of the site, is to demonstrate how a chatbot can be integrated to an official page, and how it may help the visitors of that page. In this case, the chatbot is a general-purpose bot, that can tell jokes, riddles, give some information about ferrari, tell the date and time, etc.

Setting up the environment

This project was created using Python. The packages that were used are Flask, nltk and tensorflow. In order to run this app, you need to have python 3.9 or higher installed. To download the required packages and start the app for the first time, execute the command:

./setup

Note: you need to be inside the chatbot-app/ directory to successfully run the previous script

Retraining the model

The chatbot model is trained using the intents.json file. If you want to retrain the model, you can update the intents file and then execute the command:

python3 /chatbot_code/training/model_training.py

Run the app

After all requires packages have been downloaded, you can run the app by simply executing the command:

python3 app.py

The app will start running on localhost on port 5000 (http://127.0.0.1:5000).

License

MIT

Free Software