I've been doing some research into writing my own chatbot, and I've read quite a few posts on stackoverflow about them. However, none really seem to answer my somewhat basic question - is there a pre-built framework where I can simply type in something like "if user enters 'mother', respond with 'tell me more about your family'". My question is not in how to make a good chatbot, but really in how to make one at all. I don't care whether it works on AIM or Gmail.
Basically my goal is to write up a file containing a week's events, and then have this chatbot be able to read from this file. If someone IM's them and says "Events today" or "Events this week", it will respond with the corresponding contents of the file. I am not trying to make it do anything more complicated than that for now.
What is the fastest way to get a simple chatbot up and running, where if you say "hello", it responds with "hello world"? I can come up with the rest if I can figure out what framework is best for this type of thing