For my first project in Conversation and Computation with Lauren McCarthy, I created a therapist bot with the voice of Hunter S. Thompson. The bot currently runs in the terminal, but I am working on a web version. All my code is on GitHub.
To make Dr. Gonzo, I used AlchemyAPI concept extraction to tag each paragraph of a large corpus of Hunter S. Thompson’s writing. I fed the tagged corpus into a MongoDB database, which I query with PyMongo. I used Pattern and NLTK to parse and categorize user input, and match it to documents in the database. Database entries are appended with text generated from a template engine. Additionally, my template engine handles the first several user requests in every session.
Here are a few more screenshots of the doctor in action:
