app.py

import json
from transformers import pipeline
import nltk
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer

# Download NLTK resources
nltk.download('punkt')
nltk.download('wordnet')
nltk.download('stopwords')

# Load the JSON data from the file
with open('uts_courses.json') as f:
    data = json.load(f)

# Load the question-answering pipeline
qa_pipeline = pipeline("question-answering")

# Define stop words and lemmatizer
stop_words = set(stopwords.words('english'))
lemmatizer = WordNetLemmatizer()

# Function to preprocess user input
def preprocess_input(user_input):
    tokens = word_tokenize(user_input.lower())
    filtered_tokens = [lemmatizer.lemmatize(word) for word in tokens if word.isalnum() and word not in stop_words]
    return " ".join(filtered_tokens)

# Function to find courses by field of study
def find_courses_by_field(field):
    if field in data['courses']:
        return data['courses'][field]
    else:
        return []

# Function to handle user input and generate responses
def generate_response(user_input):
    user_input = preprocess_input(user_input)
    if user_input == 'exit':
        return "Exiting the program."
    elif "courses" in user_input and "available" in user_input:
        field = user_input.split("in ")[1]
        courses = find_courses_by_field(field)
        if courses:
            response = f"Courses in {field}: {', '.join(courses)}"
        else:
            response = f"No courses found in {field}."
    else:
        answer = qa_pipeline(question=user_input, context=data)
        response = answer['answer']
    return response

# Main function to interact with the user
def main():
    print("Welcome! I'm the UTS Course Chatbot. How can I assist you today?")
    print("You can ask questions about UTS courses or type 'exit' to end the conversation.")

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ")
        response = generate_response(user_input)
        print("Bot:", response)
        if response == "Exiting the program.":
            break

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()