A Markov-chain IRC Chatbot in Haskell

NomeBot creates semi-realistic text using Markov chains to create a sqlite database from a given training corpus. NomeBot is intended to maintain the 'flavor' of its training text, and thus does not learn from its conversations while in chat mode. The default chain length is 2, but can be changed by modifying 'chainLength' in Trainer.hs.

Running ./NomeBot -h will disply the following command line options:

-t --train Put bot in training mode -s SERVER --server=SERVER Specify server -p NUMBER --port=NUMBER Specify port -n NICK --nick=NICK Specify nick -c #CHANNEL --chan=#CHANNEL Specify channel -d FILE --database=FILE Specify database

Requires a small change to run on real irc networks, currently 'reply()' in Chat.hs only ignores messages that begin with ':irc', which is not the naming convention for all network messages. Thus, NomeBot may reply to all server messages, flooding the chat server and causing it to get kicked.