# Natural Language Toolkit: Chatbot Utilities # # Copyright (C) 2001-2010 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 string import re import random reflections = { "am" : "are", "was" : "were", "i" : "you", "i'd" : "you would", "i've" : "you have", "i'll" : "you will", "my" : "your", "are" : "am", "you've" : "I have", "you'll" : "I will", "your" : "my", "yours" : "mine", "you" : "me", "me" : "you" } class Chat(object): 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: C{list} of C{tuple} @param pairs: The patterns and responses @type reflections: C{dict} @param reflections: A mapping between first and second person expressions @rtype: C{None} """ self._pairs = [(re.compile(x, re.IGNORECASE),y) for (x,y) in pairs] self._reflections = reflections # bug: only permits single word expressions to be mapped def _substitute(self, str): """ Substitute words in the string, according to the specified reflections, e.g. "I'm" -> "you are" @type str: C{string} @param str: The string to be mapped @rtype: C{string} """ words = "" for word in string.split(string.lower(str)): if self._reflections.has_key(word): word = self._reflections[word] words += ' ' + word return words def _wildcards(self, response, match): pos = string.find(response,'%') while pos >= 0: num = string.atoi(response[pos+1:pos+2]) response = response[:pos] + \ self._substitute(match.group(num)) + \ response[pos+2:] pos = string.find(response,'%') return response def respond(self, str): """ Generate a response to the user input. @type str: C{string} @param str: The string to be mapped @rtype: C{string} """ # 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"): input = "" while input != quit: input = quit try: input = raw_input(">") except EOFError: print input if input: while input[-1] in "!.": input = input[:-1] print self.respond(input)