Chatbot Recommendation

[jonathanbgn]

Chatbot Recommendation

[geekyme]

This is a good idea! At first I thought we would need to do some NLP magic (like determining intent, etc.) first.

I've written a backend that is able to connect to multiple channels (Line, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, etc.), but no logic on message processing yet. Shall we use that + add the functionality above?

See this PR: @jonathanbgn @erickhun #1

[erickhun]

love it! - I gave it a try :

• we can just use a collaborative spreadsheet of Q&A and query that spreadsheet, it will just work magically
• we can make it fancier by just scraping our Q&A (but seems like the more variance of questions is better), maybe a spreadsheet is better
• they seem to use it for that "talk to book" project, where you just feed it with books, and find the answer. idea 💡: We could feed it with Taiwan immigration law, and get answer from it (cc @fifieldt )
• could potentially feed it with questions/answers from forumsa/line/reddit and have a super super smart bot 🤖

[fifieldt]

Relevant laws/regulations:

https://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=D0080132
https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=A0030295
https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=D0080204
https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=G0340150

[geekyme]

@jonathanbgn, we have updated the backend code to have:

• a web server connected to chatbot channels (line)
• a connection to the google sheet above to grab the data you need
• auto deployment to heroku

Try the bot here. It does nothing but echo your message. All that is missing is the brains to process the message sent by the user. All yours now! 👍

[jonathanbgn]

See #8 for a first version of the model (backend version). The model is quite big (almost 1GB) so we should make sure it can run on Heroku!

[geekyme]

Closing this as we have a working MVP now :)