Is there an API or something similar to respond to human language?

Question

I've written a chat room bot for Campfire and it is programmed to handle certain keywords and commands, however I'd like to make it seem more sentient.

Is there an API that can take a string such as:

'Are you a robot?'

and respond with something like:

'Of course not.'

? Or even a linux program or bit of open source software that can do something like that?

I'd rather not write one from scratch!

Answer 1

There is a python package called chat from nltk where you can have a 'conversation' with different bots. You could take these codes and build on them for your own application.