# Natural Language Toolkit: Chatbot Utilities # # Copyright (C) 2001-2023 NLTK Project # Authors: Steven Bird # URL: # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT # Based on an Eliza implementation by Joe Strout , # Jeff Epler and Jez Higgins . import random import re reflections = { "i am": "you are", "i was": "you were", "i": "you", "i'm": "you are", "i'd": "you would", "i've": "you have", "i'll": "you will", "my": "your", "you are": "I am", "you were": "I was", "you've": "I have", "you'll": "I will", "your": "my", "yours": "mine", "you": "me", "me": "you", } class Chat: def __init__(self, pairs, reflections={}): """ Initialize the chatbot. Pairs is a list of patterns and responses. Each pattern is a regular expression matching the user's statement or question, e.g. r'I like (.*)'. For each such pattern a list of possible responses is given, e.g. ['Why do you like %1', 'Did you ever dislike %1']. Material which is matched by parenthesized sections of the patterns (e.g. .*) is mapped to the numbered positions in the responses, e.g. %1. :type pairs: list of tuple :param pairs: The patterns and responses :type reflections: dict :param reflections: A mapping between first and second person expressions :rtype: None """ self._pairs = [(re.compile(x, re.IGNORECASE), y) for (x, y) in pairs] self._reflections = reflections self._regex = self._compile_reflections() def _compile_reflections(self): sorted_refl = sorted(self._reflections, key=len, reverse=True) return re.compile( r"\b({})\b".format("|".join(map(re.escape, sorted_refl))), re.IGNORECASE ) def _substitute(self, str): """ Substitute words in the string, according to the specified reflections, e.g. "I'm" -> "you are" :type str: str :param str: The string to be mapped :rtype: str """ return self._regex.sub( lambda mo: self._reflections[mo.string[mo.start() : mo.end()]], str.lower() ) def _wildcards(self, response, match): pos = response.find("%") while pos >= 0: num = int(response[pos + 1 : pos + 2]) response = ( response[:pos] + self._substitute(match.group(num)) + response[pos + 2 :] ) pos = response.find("%") return response def respond(self, str): """ Generate a response to the user input. :type str: str :param str: The string to be mapped :rtype: str """ # check each pattern for (pattern, response) in self._pairs: match = pattern.match(str) # did the pattern match? if match: resp = random.choice(response) # pick a random response resp = self._wildcards(resp, match) # process wildcards # fix munged punctuation at the end if resp[-2:] == "?.": resp = resp[:-2] + "." if resp[-2:] == "??": resp = resp[:-2] + "?" return resp # Hold a conversation with a chatbot def converse(self, quit="quit"): user_input = "" while user_input != quit: user_input = quit try: user_input = input(">") except EOFError: print(user_input) if user_input: while user_input[-1] in "!.": user_input = user_input[:-1] print(self.respond(user_input))