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I've been working on a chatbot on and off for about 11 years, and while I've made a lot of progress, there's a great deal of work left to do. I was thinking that if this was a group project, development would pick up speed considerably, plus it could be more fun to work on. I'd like see if there's any interest out there.

I wanted to make a chatbot that is better than the AIML types. Something that would pay attention to who it was talking to and try to learn from that person. It would not guess at an answer when it has no understanding of that was said. If it doesn't understand, it will explain why and ask for information in an attempt to understand. What it learns can be applied later in the conversation and with other users.

About this program

• This is a text based robot with learning as the main emphasis
• It tends to try to learn about the people it talks to and the world in general
• Its database relies on a classification of basic knowledge
• It uses templates to interpret sentences
• Only certain types of words are allowed to fit in the templates
• It keeps track of the people that talk to it
• It starts out with simple features and is expandable
• ID numbers are used identify specific members of a category, usually people could also be pets, buildings database entries start with a number sign followed by the id number

Goals

• Will expect to know who it's talking to
• Will remember elements of conversations
• Will form opinions of the people it talks to
• Will try to use people to expand it's knowledge
• Will try to make sense of every part of a sentence and will reject any word it can't make sense of.
• Will react to things that are odd

Limitations

• Only full sentences
• No pronouns
• No adjectives
• No adverbs
• No figures of speech
• No slang
• No compound sentences (example: "Hi, how are you")
• Ignores multiple meanings

Programming details

• Language: C
• Editor: Code::Blocks
• Compiler: GCC
• Platform: Windows console