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Comparisons

Statement comparison

ChatterBot uses Statement objects to hold information about things that can be said. An important part of how a chat bot selects a response is based on its ability to compare two statements to each other. There are a number of ways to do this, and ChatterBot comes with a handful of methods built in for you to use.

.. automodule:: chatterbot.comparisons
   :members:

Use your own comparison function

You can create your own comparison function and use it as long as the function takes two statements as parameters and returns a numeric value between 0 and 1. A 0 should represent the lowest possible similarity and a 1 should represent the highest possible similarity.

def comparison_function(statement, other_statement):

    # Your comparison logic

    # Return your calculated value here
    return 0.0

Setting the comparison method

To set the statement comparison method for your chat bot, you will need to pass the statement_comparison_function parameter to your chat bot when you initialize it. An example of this is shown below.

from chatterbot import ChatBot
from chatterbot.comparisons import LevenshteinDistance

chatbot = ChatBot(
    # ...
    statement_comparison_function=LevenshteinDistance
)

Taggers

ChatterBot supports a number of different taggers that can be used to process the input text. The taggers are used to identify the parts of speech in the input text and can be used to improve the accuracy of the response selection.

.. automodule:: chatterbot.tagging
   :members:
   :undoc-members:

Languages

ChatterBot's languages module contains helper classes for working with language codes and names.

.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.ENG


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.FRE


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.GER


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.ITA


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.JPN


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.KOR


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.POR


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.RUS


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.SPA


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.SWE


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.TUR


.. autoclass:: chatterbot.languages.ZHT

See chatterbot.languages for the full list of languages.