A Chat Bot-style program that draws from Reddit to engage with the user in a non-task-oriented conversation

This project draws from/is a component of the TickTock project (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/zhouyu/www/TickTock.pdf). However, the TickTock project requires a full Kinect-based setup for spoken interaction, and draws from a database. This component, in contrast, only uses text-based components to simplify use, and queries Reddit directly to find an appropriate response to user input.

To run the program, in the command line, run:

python StartConversation.py

Requires praw and pyasn1. Assuming python is installed, these can be installed using

pip install praw
pip install pyasn1