title: Is there a chatbot framework available?
body: <p>I am trying to  create an program similar to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA" rel="noreferrer">ELIZA</a>.  My preference is to implement this project in a  general language such as ruby, java, C++.
  is there some framework (open source would be great) available for any of these languages ?</p>