ChatterBot

ChatterBot is a machine-learning based conversational dialog engine build in Python which makes it possible to generate responses based on collections of known conversations. The language independent design of ChatterBot allows it to be trained to speak any language.

`Read in English <readme.md>`__ `Leia em Português <readme.pt.md>`__ `Leer en español <readme-es.md>`__

An example of typical input would be something like this:

user: Good morning! How are you doing?

bot: I am doing very well, thank you for asking.

user: You’re welcome.

bot: Do you like hats?

pip install chatterbot

from chatterbot import ChatBot
from chatterbot.training.trainers import ChatterBotCorpusTrainer

chatbot = ChatBot("Ron Obvious")
chatbot.set_trainer(ChatterBotCorpusTrainer)

# Train based on the english corpus
chatbot.train("chatterbot.corpus.english")

# Get a response to an input statement
chatbot.get_response("Hello, how are you today?")

Training data

Chatterbot comes with a data utility module that can be used to train chat bots. At the moment there is three languages, English, Spanish and Portuguese training data in this module. Contributions of additional training data or training data in other languages would be greatly appreciated. Take a look at the data files in the chatterbot/corpus directory if you are interested in contributing.

# Train based on the english corpus
chatbot.train("chatterbot.corpus.english")

# Train based on english greetings corpus
chatbot.train("chatterbot.corpus.english.greetings")

# Train based on the english conversations corpus
chatbot.train("chatterbot.corpus.english.conversations")

Corpus contributions are welcome! Please make a pull request.

Documentation

View the documentation for ChatterBot on Read the Docs.

Examples

For examples, see the examples directory in this project’s repository.

There is also an example Django project using ChatterBot.

Have you created something cool using ChatterBot?

Please add your creation to the list of projects using ChatterBot in the wiki.

Testing

ChatterBot’s built in tests can be run using nose.

nosetests

See the nose documentation for more information.

History

See release notes for changes https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/releases