Chatbot for the data in this repository

hannanabdul55 commented 3 years ago

What's there in this bot?

I have created a bot (demo here - click on the small popup on the bottom right corner) using Dialogflow that pulls data from the data folder in this repository and serves it to end-users through a chatbot. Currently, it has the following queries:

Oxygen queries: I need oxygen in Mumbai.
Remdesivir queries: I need medicines/remdesivir in Bangalore
Plasma queries: Show me where can I get plasma in Bangalore

What's being added

I am working on adding more options like hospitals, helpline, etc.
This seems to work for multilingual cases as well. Its just looks for basic keywords and for this case, it works out pretty well. For example: Mujhe Bangalore mein oxygen cylinders chahiye seems to work as it is just extracting the entity oxygen and the place Bangalore.

Next steps

The bot backend should refresh the data regularly. This is straightforward to implement.
Current Dialogflow has quota limits. Need to limit the usage of this initially till an alternative is figured out.

What does it take to add this to a website?

Just add this code snippet to the HTML

<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/dialogflow-console/fast/messenger/bootstrap.js?v=1"></script>
<df-messenger
  intent="WELCOME"
  chat-title="COVIDIndia-Chatbot"
  agent-id="66abf6fe-80ee-4b2a-b182-6341dce4c3c6"
  language-code="en"
></df-messenger>

What next?

Head over to https://github.com/hannanabdul55/covid19-in-chatbot to check the code for the backend. It is a simple flask server currently being hosted on heroku. The code is also pretty straightforward (it's all in app.py).
Need to work on making the query extraction from the data wider. In this sense, the place searched should be generic enough to be a state, city, or district.
I am happy to help with any other kind of integration required, if required 👍

Deep-Codes commented 3 years ago

@bodhish Please See.

vjFaLk commented 3 years ago

@hannanabdul55 I was just thinking about making a Telegram bot and then saw this post. What are you thoughts on porting your code over to a Telegram bot. It will make it more accessible and also remove the Dialogflow dependency.

hannanabdul55 commented 3 years ago

What are you thoughts on porting your code over to a Telegram bot.

I am not sure about the Telegram API. But I can definitely standardize the data querying here and serve that through the flask server. I am not sure about what aspects of the natural language processing does Telegram handle. If it does all the parsing into Entities, similar to Dialogflow, then it should be pretty easy to port the entire code to Telegram. As a matter of fact, Dialogflow itself has an option to "plug in" to Telegram.

bodhish commented 3 years ago

@hannanabdul55 we can definitely include it

vjFaLk commented 3 years ago

Hey I've created a new discussion at https://github.com/coronasafe/life/discussions/146 as it seemed more apt than Issues.

hannanabdul55 commented 3 years ago

Closing this as it is moved to a discussion.

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