Rasa Doctor Appointment Chatbot

Description

This Rasa chatbot serves as a smart chatbot speaking to people and educating/informing

Files in Rasa Folder

A brief rundown of the purpose of some of the files, which are closely interconnected with one another.

• actions.py This file contains all written Python code of custom actions.

• config.yml This file contains configurations for Rasa NLU and Rasa Core, such as tokenizers and policies.

• credentials.yml This file contains the credentials for the voice & chat platforms which the bot is using.

• data

  • nlu.yml This file contains all the intents and their variations.
  • stories.yml This file contains different variations of paths that a user might go through.
  • rules.yml This file is a new addition from Rasa v1.x, containing the rules that define certain conversational paths of the chatbot

• domain.yml This file contains the actions, utters, entities, forms, slots, responses and buttons that are used.

• endpoints.yml This file contains the different endpoints the bot can use.

• models This folder contains model(s) which are trained.

Installation

Rasa Quick Installation

You can install Rasa Open Source using pip. It is strongly recommended to create a virtual environment.

$ pip3 install rasa

For full installation guide, check out the Rasa Documentation.

Running locally

The bot can be run on Terminal locally. The bot calls the action server via the url specified under endpoints.yml.

1. Run Rasa Shell In a Terminal tab in your bot directory, enter this command line to run rasa:

rasa shell

Alternatively, to see debugging information in Terminal as the program runs, you can append the debug property:

rasa shell --debug

2. Run Action Server Running the action server is necessary to utilise the custom actions writtten in actions.py. To run the action server, open up another tab in Terminal and enter this command line:

rasa run actions