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A Virtual Assistant Chatbot for College Advising System

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Second International Conference on Computer Networks and Communication Technologies (ICCNCT 2019)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies ((LNDECT,volume 44))

Abstract

This paper proposes the merging of different Techniques for the implementation of an artificially intelligent Chatbot with which the users can interact with text or voice commands. Main objective for the Chatbot to be used as an information and advising system that helps postgraduate students in answering their different queries and respond and provide the best possible options for them. It is created using Visual C# (GUI) and SIML (Synthetic Intelligence Markup Language) as a knowledge base for the Chatbot and uses Microsoft SAPI for both speech synthesizer, and speech recognition with natural language processing abilities as well as providing a few different extra help for the students as a course list, schedule and more.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt

    Hadeel Mohamed, Osama Badawy & Khaled Eskaf

  2. Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, College of Communication, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt

    Mohamed Saad Zaghloul

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  1. Department of Computer Science Engineering, RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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  2. University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

    Tomonobu Senjyu

  3. Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Pavel Lafata

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Mohamed, H., Badawy, O., Eskaf, K., Zaghloul, M.S. (2020). A Virtual Assistant Chatbot for College Advising System. In: Smys, S., Senjyu, T., Lafata, P. (eds) Second International Conference on Computer Networks and Communication Technologies. ICCNCT 2019. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 44. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37051-0_70

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