Foreign language Chatterbot web app

Question

My goal is to write some sort of chatterbot that speaks in spanish. I've seen examples for simple python chatterbots, but their answers are mostly just random. I want the bot to partially understand the question and formulate a response to it, like http://cleverbot.com does. I'm guessing I would want to use python for this since I want it to be a web app. What's involved in making something like this? Are there any libraries that do this already?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

For a starting place, I'd take a look at the Natural Language Toolkit: http://www.nltk.org/.

Answer 2

Spanish chatterbots are listed on: http://www.chatbots.org/language/spanish/

There is a forum for beginners 'New to chatbot programming' http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewforum/35/

And a document with the very first guidelines: /ai_zone/viewthread/492/

And a support forum for a recent launched tool to build a chatbot your self, called ChatScript: /ai_zone/viewforum/44/

As I new member, I'm only allowed to leave 2 hyperlinks, which I understand, but you probably know how to extend to the full URL :-)