RULE BASED CHATBOT USING NLTK

A MINI PROJECT REPORT

Submitted by
822320104001 T. AARTHI

822320104002 A. ARUNMANI

822320104005 A. B. GOKULA PRIYAA

822320104008 K. KAYALVIZHI

in partial fulfilment for the award of the degree

of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING

in

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

VANDAYAR ENGINEERING COLLEGE,THANJAVUR

ANNA UNIVERSITY:CHENNAI 600025

MAY 2023
ANNA UNIVERSITY: CHENNAI 600 025
 BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

Certified that this project report “RULE BASED CHATBOT USING NLTK“is the
bonafied work of “T.AARTHI (822320104001), A.ARUNMANI
(822320104002), A.B. GOKULA PRIYAA (822320104005),
K.KAYALVIZHI (822320104008)” who carried out the project work under
my supervision.

Dr.S.SAMUNDEESWARI,M.Tech.,Ph.D Mr. M.SARAVANAKUMAR, M.E.,

PROFESSOR HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT
DEPARTMENT OF CSE DEPARTMENT OF CSE
Vandayar Engineering College Vandayar Engineering College
Thanjavur-613501 Thanjavur-613501

Submitted for the project viva voice examination held on ………………...

INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL EXAMINER

ABSTRACT
This project implements a simple chatbot using Python's Natural Language

Toolkit (NLTK) library. The chatbot is capable of responding to user input

based on a set of predefined rules. It can respond to common greetings,

recommend a random song from a list of songs, tell a joke from a list of

jokes, or provide a quote from a list of quotes. The chatbot works by first

tokenizing the user's input, then checks if the input contains any of the

predefined keywords, such as greetings, song, joke, or quote. If a keyword is

found, the chatbot responds with an appropriate response. If no keyword is

found, the chatbot generates a default response. The chatbot is designed to be

interactive and will continue to respond to user input until the user enters the

word "quit." The chatbot can be modified to include additional functionality

or to respond to different keywords, making it a useful tool for a variety of

applications, such as customer service or personal assistance.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
 First of all, I thank god for his blessing and grace on every success in the
life and also this project.

The success of any work lies in the involvement and commitment of its
makers, this being no exception. At this juncture I would like to acknowledge
the many minds that made this project of ours to be a reality.

My grateful thank to our beloved Chairman Mr.S.GUNASEKARA

VANDAYAR, M.Com and Correspondent Mr.G.VIJAY PRAKASH, B.E.,
M.Tech., M.B.A for the continuous help during our course period by arranging
various activities.

Next my grateful thanks to our Principal Dr.SAMUNDEESWARI,

M.Tech., Ph.D for providing his hands to us to successfully complete the
course.

The encouragement and support of our Head of the Department

Mr.M.SARAVANAKUMAR, M.E., as always guiding with spirit throughout
the course period. Whenever clouds of disappointment hung above, I am always
had one never failing ray of hope that showed the path, time and again, in the
form of our Head of the Department.
My special thanks for the invaluable help and guidance given by my
internal guide Dr.SAMUNDEESWARI, M.Tech., Ph.D Professor Department
of Computer Science and Engineering, Vandayar Engineering College,
Thanjavur.
I would be failing in my duty if I do not mention the whole hearted
support and technical assistance extended to me by all the FACULTY
MEMBERS AND TECHNICAL STAFFS of the Computer Science and
Engineering Department, Vandayar Engineering College, Thanjavur.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ABSTRACT iii

LIST OF FIGURE iv

LIST OF ABBREVIATION v

INTRODUCTION 1

1 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.2 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
2
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
1.4 REPORT SUMMARY 2

LITERATURE SURVEY 3

2.1 RESERCH PAPERS ON RULE BASED

2
CHATBOTS 3

2.2 AN OVERVIEW OF CHATBOT

TECHNOLOGY 3
2.3 NLTK NATURAL LANGUAGE TOOLKIT 5
3 EXISTING SYSTEM 6

3.1 RULE BASED CHATBOT 6

3.2 RULE BASED CHATBOT USING NLTK 7

4 PROPOSED WORK 9

4.1 INTRODUCTION 9

4.2 RULE BASED CHATBOT USING NLTK

10
FRAMEWORK

4.3 RULE BASED CHTBOT ALGORITHM 11

 5 SYSTEM SPECIFICATION 12

5.1 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT 12

5.2 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT 14

6 IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS 18

6.1 CHAATBOT IMPLEMENTATION 18

7 PERFORMANCE COMPARISON 19
8 CONCLUSION 20

APPENDIX – I 21

APPENDIX – II 25

LIST OF FIGURES

FIG.NO FIGURES PAGENO

Fig. 3.1 Mitsuku and Jabberwacky chatbot 7

Fig. 3.2 Restaurant Chatbot and Weather Chatbot 8

Fig. 4.1 Difference between Rule-based and AI-powered chatbot 10

Fig. 6.1 Sample Chatbot conversation 18

Fig. 7.1 Accuracy and Precision Graph 19

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE NAME OF THE TABLES PAGE

 NO NO
1 Software Specifications 12
2 Hardware Specification 14
3 Comparison Analysis 18

LIST OF ABBREVATIONS

S. NO ABBREVATION EXPANSION

1 NLTK Natural Language Toolkit

2 AI Artificial Intellegence

3 NLP Natural Language Processing

4 SIL Safety Integrity Level

5 NIST National Institute of Standards and

Technology

6 CMU Carnegie Mellon University

7 CoNLL Conference on Natural Language

Learning

8 IEER Institute for energy and environmental

research

9 AMD Advanced Micro Devices

10 HCI Human Communication Interaction

11 ALICE Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer

Entity