Project 3: Conversational Interface

Group Members: Jiapeng Liu, Ka Wong, Tomi Inouye

GitHub repository: https://github.com/liujjpp/nlp-proj3

Rasa is used in this project, therefore, the module uvloop is needed. uvloop is only supported on Linux or Mac machines, so please install the project one of the so said machines to be able to install all dependencies. The alternative is to run a linux system on a virtual machine to install this project.

• Python 3
• Pip 3
• Mac or Linux machine

$ pip3 install virtualenv

$ virtualenv -p python3 venv

$ source venv/bin/activate

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

To start chatting with the rasa bot, run rasa shell, otherwise to retrain the rasa bot using modified data from /data/*, run rasa train.

Keep in mind to also run rasa run actions in a separate tab within your virtualenv so the custom actions for retrieving the recipe and parsing entities from user messages for custom responses are active. The command creates a webserver on port 5055 and listens for calls to /webhook by the bot to perform the custom actions.