IdeationBot: A chatbot facilitating divergent thinking

Initialize chatbot using the terminal

cd /Users/path_to_folder
conda env create -f chatbot_env.yml
conda activate chatbot_env
(or install requirements manually: pip install -r requirements.txt)
python chatBot.py

Prerequisites

The chatBot.py script requires the Google News Pretrained word embeddings (GoogleNews-Vectors-negative300.bin)

Can be downloaded from https://code.google.com/archive/p/word2vec/ (page) or
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7XkCwpI5KDYNlNUTTlSS21pQmM/edit?usp=sharing (direct download)