swahili-Chatbot-RuleBased

Welcome to the Flask Chatbot repository! This project implements a simple chatbot using Flask and NLTK. The chatbot reads from a dataset to provide responses based on user input.

Getting Started

To get started with this project, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

   https://github.com/noelmakubi/swahili-Chatbot-RuleBased.git

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the Flask application:

   python app.py

Usage

Once the Flask application is running, you can interact with the chatbot. Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:5000/ to access the chat interface.

Features

• Interactive chat interface
• Responses based on similarity matching using NLTK's Jaccard distance
• Easy to extend with additional dataset

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! If you find any bugs or want to suggest enhancements, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-2.0 license- see the LICENSE file for details.