ChatBot-Workshop

In this workshop, we'll discuss a brief history of "chatbots" (computer programs designed to have a text-based conversation with a human user) and examine the landscape of tools and frameworks for creating them. We'll then build our own chatbots using RiveScript, a simple scripting language with a friendly, easy to learn syntax (no programming experience necessary!). After we build some simple chatbots, we'll look at how RiveScript can be integrated in a web application with JavaScript.

RiveScript

• rivescript.com
• RiveScript Tutorial
• RiveScript Playground
• RiveScript Python
• RiveScript JavaScript
• Alexa-Rivescript-Chatbot
• QuickBlox Chatbots

RiveScript + p5 web editor Example

• http://alpha.editor.p5js.org/icm/sketches/rkT3XCrG-

Examples of "Chat Bots"

• Eliza, 1966
• PARRY, 1972
• A.L.I.C.E.
• ...taking suggestions please...
• InsomnoBot 3000 from Casper Mattresses

Other Frameworks

• Online Bot Builder for luis.ai
• wit.ai
• api.ai
• Pandora Bots
• Amazon Lex
• Recast.AI
• Microsoft bot framework
• chatfuel
• motion.ai
• aspect

Resources / Reading

• Slides
• Computing Machinery and Intelligence By A. M. Turing
• Ultimate Guide to Leveraging NLP & Machine Learning for your Chatbot
• Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model - Jiwei Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Georgios P. Spithourakis, Jianfeng Gao, Bill Dolan
• Video tutorial: Deep Learning Chatbot using Keras and Python - Part I (Pre-processing text for inputs into LSTM)
• Chatting with a Deep learning brain by Julien Chaumond

Training Data

• IMSDb
• Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus
• Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus

Libraries

• Go - Official Go port.
• Java - Official Java port.
• JavaScript - Official JavaScript port.
• Perl - Official Perl port.
• Python - Official Python (2 and 3) port.
• C# - RiveScript for C#/.Net
• PHP - In-development RiveScript library for PHP.