A primer to write a conversational chatbot

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Demonstrates a working chatbot built as a one-endpoint REST service using ChatterBot with NLTK, a CorpusTrainer (greetings, English conversation), Levenshtein best-match and a confidence cutoff of 0.55; basic training takes 5–15 minutes and answers by most-frequent response. Adds Facebook integration via FBMQ with webhook handling and user-profile lookups, supports feedback-based reinforcement learning (like/thumbs-up), shows demos that mostly work but fail on Hebrew and occasionally break during live demo.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 2:48History of chatbots
3. 8:46Modern chatbot trends
4. 11:59Building a chatbot with ChatterBot
5. 21:40Facebook Messenger integration
6. 24:32Demo and Q&A

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