An AI Chatbot framework built in Python

AI Chatbot Framework is an AI powered conversational dialog interface built in Python. With this tool, it’s easy to create Natural Language conversational scenarios with no coding efforts whatsoever. The smooth UI makes it effortless to create and train conversations to the bot. AI Chatbot Framework can live on any channel of your choice (such as Messenger, Slack etc.) by integrating it’s API with that platform.

You don’t need to be an expert at artificial intelligence to create an awesome chatbot that has AI capabilities. With this boilerplate project you can create an AI powered chatting machine in no time. Since this is a hobby project, there could be numerous bugs, so contributions through pull requests are welcome!

Index

• Installation
  • Docker Compose
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • Without Docker
  • Updating Frontend
  • Heroku
• Database
  • Restoring Intents
• Screenshots
• Tutorial
• Dependencies

Installation

Using docker-compose

docker-compose up -d

Using Helm

helm dep update helm/ai-chatbot-framework

helm upgrade --install --create-namespace -n ai-chatbot-framework ai-chatbot-framework helm/ai-chatbot-framework

# port forward for local installation
kubectl port-forward --namespace=ai-chatbot-framework service/ingress-nginx-controller 8080:80

Using Docker

# pull docker images
docker pull alfredfrancis/ai-chatbot-framework_backend:latest
docker pull alfredfrancis/ai-chatbot-framework_frontend:latest

# start a mongodb server
docker run --name mongodb -d mongo:3.6

# start iky backend
docker run -d --name=iky_backend --link mongodb:mongodb -e="APPLICATION_ENV=Production" alfredfrancis/ai-chatbot-framework_backend:latest

# setup default intents
docker exec -it iky_backend flask --app=manage  manage  migrate 

# start iky gateway with frontend
docker run -d --name=iky_gateway --link iky_backend:iky_backend -p 8080:80 alfredfrancis/ai-chatbot-framework_frontend:latest

without docker

• Setup Virtualenv and install python requirements

virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
flask --app=manage  manage  migrate 
flask run --host=127.0.0.1 --debug --port=8080

• Production

APPLICATION_ENV="Production" gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8080 run:app

• Open http://localhost:8080/

Update Frontend Dist

• Run Development mode

cd frontend
npm install
ng serve

• Take Production build

cd frontend
ng build --prod --optimize

Heroku

• add your dev/production configurations in config.py

DB

Restore

You can import some default intents using following steps

• goto http://localhost:8080/agent/default/settings
• click 'choose file'
• choose 'examples/default_intents.json file'
• click import

Screenshots

Tutorial

Checkout this basic tutorial on youtube,

Dependencies documentations

• SKLearn documentation
• CRFsuite documentation
• python CRfSuite

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