BOT Interactive Bot for Automatic Online Conversations

This program focuses on building a conversational bot used for online support. It is based on Ruby Novice to Professional by Apress.

First step was to create a Text Processing Tools Library, folllwing these basic flowchart:

START -> Accept User Input -> Clean up and expand text -> Split input into sentences and words -> Find vi able response from phrase sets -> Switch object senses for response -> Substitute user phrases into responses phrases -> Return result to user -> END

Step 1. Building the WordPlay Library Step 2. Bulding a unit testing class Step 3. Building a bot

The Program’s Life Cycle and Parts

The entire application will be composed of four parts: 1. The Bot class, within bot.rb, containing all the bot’s logic and any subclasses. 2. The WordPlay library, within wordplay.rb, containing the WordPlay class and extensions to String. 3. Basic “client” applications that create bots and allows users to interact with them. 4. A helper program to generate the bot’s data files easily.