Simple ChatBot with tests

Hi all,
The NLP field is pretty amazing, specially with ChatGPT4 around, so as part of my MSc studies I tried to learn a bit about the techniques used to build such AI systems.
I looked around in Github and found several repositories implementing chatbots, so I used some of them to build this Encoder/ Decoder based chat model.
It uses an intents.json file which is contains several input patterns and optional responses.
The readme file relates to some of the sources I used.

Using the chatbot:

1. Clone the repository to your local computer:
   git clone https://github.com/FredAdiv/Chatbot

2. (Optional) I suggest you use a docker container for the project. This is a sample command line for creating such a container:
   docker run -it --name chatbot -w /opt -v c:\users<username>\chatbot:/opt python:3.11 bash

3. If the container was created but didn't open then
   use the following command:
   docker container start -i chatbot

4. Install dependencies from the requirements file:
   pip install requirements.txt

5. (Optional) Use pytest to make sure that everything works:
   pytest

6. Run the bot:
   python chat.py

Happy Chatting.