Project Report
Project Report
ON
“THE CHATBOT APPLICATION”
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Introduction:
Dataset:
The dataset used for this project is the Cornell Movie Dialogs
Corpus, which consists of over 200,000 conversational exchanges
between movie characters. The dataset contains a variety of
conversational topics, including romance, comedy, drama, and
horror. The dataset was preprocessed by tokenizing the text,
removing stop words and punctuation marks, and converting all the
text to lowercase to ensure consistency.
Preprocessing:
The preprocessing step is essential for training any machine
learning model, especially when working with text data. We
performed several preprocessing steps on the Cornell Movie
Dialogs Corpus, which included tokenizing the text, removing stop
words, and punctuation marks. We also converted all the text to
lowercase to ensure consistency in the dataset.
Model Architecture:
We used a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model for the chatbot.
The seq2seq model consists of two components: an encoder and a
decoder. The encoder takes in the user query and produces a context
vector that represents the meaning of the input text. The decoder
then takes in the context vector and generates a response. We used
an LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) network for both the
encoder and decoder. The LSTM is a type of recurrent neural
network (RNN) that can handle long sequences of text.
Training:
We trained the model on a GPU using PyTorch. We used a batch
size of 64 and trained the model for 50 epochs. We used the Adam
optimizer with a learning rate of 0.001. To prevent overfitting, we
used dropout regularization with a probability of 0.5.
Evaluation:
We evaluated the model using a metric called perplexity, which
measures how well the model can predict the next word in a
sequence. A lower perplexity indicates a better model. We achieved
a perplexity of 25.7 on the test set.
Results:
The chatbot is able to understand and respond to user queries with
reasonable accuracy. However, the model is limited by the dataset
and may not perform well on topics outside of the movie script
domain. Future work could involve training the model on a larger
and more diverse dataset to improve its performance. The model
could also be enhanced by using a more sophisticated attention
mechanism and incorporating other NLP techniques such as
sentiment analysis.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, we built a chatbot using PyTorch and NLP
techniques that can understand and respond to user queries. The
chatbot has the potential to be used in various applications such as
customer service and virtual assistants. While the current model is
limited by the dataset, it has shown promising results, and future
work could improve the performance of the chatbot on a larger and
more diverse dataset. Overall, this project has demonstrated the
power of PyTorch and NLP techniques in building chatbots that can
understand and respond to human-like conversations.