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Chatbot for Information Retrieval from Unstructured Natural Language Documents
Halmstad University, School of Information Technology.
Halmstad University, School of Information Technology.
2019 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This thesis brings forward the development of a chatbot which retrieves information from a data source consisting of unstructured natural language text. This project was made in collaboration with the company Jayway in Halmstad. Elasticsearch was used to create the search function and the service Dialogflow was used to process the natural language input from the user. A Python script was created to retrieve the information from the data source, and a request handler was written which connected the tools together to create a working chatbot. The chatbot correctly answers questions with a accuracy of 72% according to testing with a sample of n = 25. The testing consisted of asking the chatbot questions and determining if the answer is correct. Possible further research could be done to explore how chatbots might help the elderly or people with disabilities use the web with a natural dialogue instead of a traditional user interface.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. , p. 36
Keywords [en]
chatbot, natural language processing
National Category
Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40532OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-40532DiVA, id: diva2:1349769
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Jayway
Subject / course
Computer science and engineering
Educational program
Computer Science and Engineering, 300 credits
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Available from: 2019-09-11 Created: 2019-09-09 Last updated: 2019-09-11Bibliographically approved

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