As a engineering student, I would like to make a chat bot using python. So, I searched a lot but couldn't really find stuff that would teach me or give me some concrete information to build a intelligent chat bot.
I would like to make a chatbot that gives human-like responses (Simply like a friend chatting with you). I am currently expecting it to be as just a software on my laptop (would like to implement in IM, IRC or websites later).
So, I am looking for a tutorial/ any other information which would certainly help me to get my project done.
You can read a nice introduction to various techniques used to design chatbots here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6305/beyond_fa%C3%A7ade_pattern_matching_.php
Also, here are a few useful links:
The Natural Language Toolkit (python) implements a few chatbots: http://nltk.github.com/api/nltk.chat.html
Simple pipeline architecture for a spoken dialogue system from the book Natural Language Processing with Python - Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit By Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper: