Building a FAQ Chatbot in Python – The Future of Information Searching
Introduction
What do we do when we need any information? Simple: “We Ask, and Google Tells”.
But if the answer depends on multiple variables, then the existing Ask-Tell model tends to sputter. State of the art search engines usually cannot handle such requests. We would have to search for information available in bits and pieces and then try to filter and assemble relevant parts together. Sounds time consuming, doesn’t it?
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This Ask-Tell model is evolving rapidly with the advent of chatbots (also referred to as just “bots”).
This article talks about the development of a bot for extracting information related to the recently introduced Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India. Being a relatively new concept, a lot of people are still trying to understand how it works. Chatbots can provide such information in a natural and conversational way. This article demonstrates building a