Setup and Running of Chatbot 4.2

Training files

1. Go to a folder which contains utf-8 text files that you plan to train the bot with, and copy the path of the folder the text files are stored in.

2. Go to chatbot/polls/views.py and replace the pathname in os.listdir(pathname) with the one you've copied previously.

Run the Chatbot

1. Open Terminal and cd to the chatbot folder.

2. Run python manage.py runserver.

This trains the bot with the text files you have provided and runs the chatbot locally.

3. Open a browser and go to localhost:8080/polls/newgetmail

Tadah!! You have successfully ran the Django based Chatbot

Modification of the Chatbot

You can:

1. Train the chatbot with a larger dataset (with more text files)

2. Remove the Machine Learning Chatbot and replace it with your own (look at views.py)

3. Add/ Remove/ Modify links of the chatbot