ELIZA - A Reconstruction of the 1966 Chatbot

This repository contains a didactic reconstruction of the ELIZA chatbot program in Python, based on Joseph Weizenbaum's original 1966 description (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365153.365168).

• weizenbaum_1966_appendix.txt - Transcribed appendix from the 1966 paper
• to_json.py - Script that processes the appendix and produces eliza.json
• eliza.json - Modern JSON representation of ELIZA's rules and responses
• test_eliza.py - Pytest tests based on a sample dialog between a user and ELIZA from the paper
• eliza.py - Main ELIZA program using Python's cmd module

This project uses pipenv for dependency management:

pipenv install

To start an interactive chat session:

python eliza.py

To convert the appendix file to JSON format:

python to_json.py > eliza.json

To run the test suite:

pipenv run pytest test_eliza.py -v