Conversational Chatbot (with AI augmentation)

To deploy the website, first clone this repo, then

0. (optional) Activate virtual environment: for Window

python -m venv venv
venv/Scripts/activate.bat

or for Linux, create a new conda virtual environment.

1. To install all the packages, run

pip install -r requirements.txt

Disclaimer: If you encounter errors when installing these packages, please remove the determined version (e.g ==x.xx.x) of the package corresponding to the errors.

2. To run the website, run

python app.py

3. Open browser and visit http://127.0.0.1:4651 (local server) or http://<public-dns>:<port> (according to input of port in app.py)

Remarks:

• See Group_Report.pdf for the details of the project
• See Data_Analysis.pdf for the data analyses (using Spark)
• See Run_demo.ipynb for the demo output if using a Virtual Machine (e.g. AWS)
• See Run_demo_colab.ipynb for how to run it without a VM using Google Colab with Ngrok (recommended)