| # Climate Change Awareness Chatbot | |
| ## Overview | |
| The app is now live! Try playing with it here: [QuantumCoders-TheSDGGuardiansAI](https://quantumcoders-thesdgguardiansai.streamlit.app/). | |
| The Climate Change Awareness Chatbot is an AI-powered chatbot designed to educate users in Uganda about climate change, sustainability, and eco-friendly practices. It provides factual answers to questions on climate change impacts, sustainable farming, afforestation, renewable energy, and more. | |
| ## Features | |
| - **Interactive Chat**: Users can ask climate-related questions and receive AI-generated responses. | |
| - **Localized Context**: Focuses on climate issues specific to Uganda. | |
| - **Chat History**: Keeps track of past conversations in the sidebar. | |
| - **Avatars**: Displays user and chatbot messages with appropriate icons. | |
| - **Sample Questions**: Provides predefined questions to guide users. | |
| - **Clear Chat History**: Users can reset conversations from the sidebar. | |
| ## Technologies Used | |
| - **Python** | |
| - **Streamlit** (for UI and chat interaction) | |
| - **Hugging Face Transformers** (for NLP model) | |
| - **ClimateBERT** (for climate-related question answering) | |
| ## Installation | |
| Clone the repository: | |
| ```sh | |
| git clone https://github.com/codingxperience/QuantumCoders-TheSDGGuardiansAI.git | |
| cd QuantumCoders-TheSDGGuardiansAI | |
| ``` | |
| Install dependencies: | |
| ```sh | |
| pip install -r requirements.txt | |
| ``` | |
| Run the application: | |
| ```sh | |
| streamlit run app.py | |
| ``` | |
| ## Usage | |
| 1. Type a message in the input box and press **Enter**. | |
| 2. View responses in the chat window. | |
| 3. Click on **Sample Questions** to see common queries. | |
| 4. Use the **Clear Chat History** button to reset the conversation. | |
| ## Future Enhancements | |
| - **Expanding coverage to include other African regions** in future versions. | |
| - **Retraining the model with Ugandan-specific climate data** to improve relevance and accuracy for local environmental challenges. | |
| - **Integration with real-time climate data APIs**. | |
| - **Visualization of climate trends and statistics**. | |
| - **Multilingual support in English, Luganda, and Swahili**. | |
| - **Offline and USSD capabilities for users in low or no-internet areas**. | |
| - **Support for voice, image, and video interactions**. | |
| - **Integration with social media platforms**. | |
| ## Contributing | |
| Pull requests are welcome! If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and create a new branch for your changes. | |
| ## License | |
| This project is for educational purposes and is open for improvement and collaboration. | |
| Developed as part of the **QuantumCoders-TheSDGGuardiansAI - 2024** initiative for a greener Uganda. | |