VICCI-Python-Chatbot

Vicci - Very Intelligent Covid Chat Interface. A chatbot made using Python and classical Machine Learning to answer basic COVID-19 related queries like definition, symptoms, spreading, treatment, methods to protect, long-term effects, testing.

Blogs

You can find the detailed blogs for this project here - Part 1, Part 2

Setup

1. git clone https://github.com/kr-prince/VICCI-Python-Chatbot.git or simply download the folder locally as zip, and extract it
2. cd VICCI-Python-Chatbot
3. Download GloVe vectors from this link. Unzip and keep the file glove.6B.100d.txt in models folder.
4. Run conda env create -f environment.yml
5. Run conda activate vicciEnv
6. Run the bot flask application by python vicci-main.py
7. If you face any issues with the existing models, you can train afresh by deleting the .joblib files in the models folder and run python botmodel.py

Please feel free to add and contribute

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