miznokruge / sarcasmbot

SarcasmBot: An open-source sarcasm-generation module for chatbots

Sarcasmbot

This software is a chat generation module that replies sarcastically to user input. Feel free to use the code, and report bugs at: [email protected], and [email protected].

If you happen to use this software, do cite the following paper:

Aditya Joshi, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Mark J Carman. SarcasmBot: An open-source sarcasm-generation module for chatbots, WISDOM at KDD 2015, Sydney, Australia, August 2015.

The license file has also been included.

##Usage The included code is a java project. The code can be used as follows:

1. Download sentiwordlist.
2. Set up an eclipse (or similar) project. Import code from SarcasmTalker.
3. Download stanford-postagger. Uncompress.
4. Include the pos-tagger jars in the eclipse project.
5. Get the location of tagger modelfile. For example, for me, it was: ~/jars/stanford-postagger-full-2014-01-04/models/english-left3words-distsim.tagger
6. Modelfile in (6) is argument 1. Sentiwordlist path in (2) is argument 2. Call Main.sarcasticChatter with these two arguments.

The sentiwordlist can be downloaded from: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/FBS/opinion-lexicon-English.rar

##Sample Java Snippet

sarcasticChatter sc = new sarcasticChatter(postagger, sentiwordlist);

System.out.println(sc.chat("Do you love chocolates?"));

##Authors

• Aditya Joshi ([email protected])
• Anoop Kunchukuttan ([email protected])

##Version: 0.2

##Revision Log 10th August 2015: First version uploaded

##LICENSE

Copyright Aditya Joshi 2015 - present

Sarcasmbot is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Sarcasmbot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Sarcasmbot. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.