/chatbot-sml

NLP Chatbot for Scalable Machine Learning, Fall 2019. UT Austin.

Primary LanguageHTML

Chatbot application for intent classification

Serving a simple machine learning model as a webservice using flask.

Getting Started

Clone repository to your local machine:

  1. From your intended location, run: git clone [repository]

  2. Cd to the folder

Set up virtual environment:

  1. Run: python3 -m venv env

    • If you do not have virtualenv set up, run pip install virtualenv

  2. To activate, run: source env/bin/activate

    • (To deactivate, run: deactivate)

  3. Ensure your virtual environment is running Python 3.x,

    • verify by running: python --version

Install requirements and run application

  1. Run: pip install -r requirements.txt to install requirements

  2. Run: python main.py to serve the model as a REST Web Service