RASA/ChatGPT Chatbot Component for Climate Change Bot

This is the chatbot component of the Climate Change Bot project. The goal of this project is to develop a chatbot that can answer questions about climate change.

Restrictions

• The chatbot is currently only optimized for german
• The chatbot is only accessible from www.climate-change-bot.site.

Code Entry Points

• All Intents, Rules and Stories are defined in rasa/data
• Configuration of the rasa pipeline rasa/config.yml
• Responses and definition of slots rasa/domain
• Code of the rasa action server rasa/actions

Running the Code

Only described for linux.

• Install first python 3.10.
• Create a virtual environment and install the packages in the requirements.txt.
• Comment out the tracker_store section endpoints.yml to use the InMemoryTrackerStore. Otherwise, you need to install the postgres database and set the correct settings.
• Navigate in the console to the rasa folder.
• download the spacy files:

python3 -m spacy download de_core_news_md

• Build the rasa model.

rasa train --domain domain

• Run the chatbot.

rasa run -vv --enable-api -m ./models/ --endpoints endpoints.yml

• Open another console to run the action server and navigate to the rasa folder.
• Set the environment variable with your OpenAI ChatGPT API Key and run the action server.

export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_key

rasa run actions --actions actions --port 5055