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C’Meal! the ChatBot for Food Information

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Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS 2020)

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Abstract

Conversational systems are growing their success among users thanks to their ability to collect and rank users’ preferences and provide them relevant information in a simple way. In this paper we present C’Meal, a chatbot-based conversational framework which, given some ingredients and other requests entered by the user as input, researches the most appropriate recipe. Two categories of people are addressed in the program: those who want to discover new recipes, and those who want to create a recipe with the few ingredients left in the fridge to reduce food waste. The user must formulate his request in both cases by inserting the desired ingredients and other specific requests as a meal type or method of cooking.

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    https://www.allrecipes.com/.

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    Nltk Library: https://www.nltk.org/ - https://pypi.org/project/nltk/.

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    Sklearn Library: https://scikit-learn.org/ - https://pypi.org/project/sklearn/.

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This paper has been produced with the financial support of the Project financed by Campania Region of Italy ‘REMIAM - Rete Musei intelligenti ad avanzata Multimedialità’. CUP B63D18000360007.

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  1. University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Alessandra Amato

  2. DIETI - University of Napoli Federico II, via Claudio 21, Naples, Italy

    Giovanni Cozzolino

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  1. Alessandra Amato
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Correspondence to Giovanni Cozzolino .

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Kin Fun Li

  3. School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan

    Hiroyoshi Miwa

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Amato, A., Cozzolino, G. (2021). C’Meal! the ChatBot for Food Information. In: Barolli, L., Li, K., Miwa, H. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. INCoS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_23

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