ConvoBot

ConvoBot is a telegram bot that uses a rather simple neural conversational model to chat with the users.

Installation

To run the scripts you will need Tensorflow, Keras and python-telegram-bot in your environment. Using the GPU version of Tensorflow is highly recommended, since training time will be drastically reduced to a few hours for the default number of epochs. Moreover, you will need 300-dimensional GloVe embeddings and the Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus. The code is tested with Python 3.6.

Usage

• Make the dataset by running the command:

  python make_train_file.py --corpus <corpus folder> --glove <embeddings file>

  It is also possible to specify the number of training epochs with the option --epochs or previously existing weights (instead of the GloVe embeddings) with the option --weights.
• Train the bot by running the command:

  python train_bot.py --glove <embeddings file>

• To run the bot you need the Telegram API key, follow the instructions to create a new Telegram bot and start the bot:

  python start_bot.py <key>