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UCI has a chatbot/conversational agent we implemented 3 years ago called ANTswers at http://www.lib.uci.edu/antswers. We use the open source and free Program-O as the back-end and AIML as the programming language. We evaluate each conversation to make adjustments to the code and to also keep statistics, which I evaluate at the end of each quarter. We text mine the questions asked to help get a clearer idea of the types of questions our students are asking and how they are asking them. I also have all of the original code up on eScholarship if anyone wants to play with it: https://escholarship.org/uc/uci_libs_antswers. ANTswers poster: https://figshare.com/articles/ANTswers_an_interactive_library_FAQ/1454540. If you have any questions, please let me know. Best, Danielle ANTswers: an interactive library FAQ - figshare.com<https://figshare.com/articles/ANTswers_an_interactive_library_FAQ/1454540> figshare.com Poster presented at the 2015 American Library Association. ANTswers, introduced in March of 2013, is an interactive beta chatbot that respons to frequently ... ________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Diaz, Noel A <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 8:08:41 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Chatbots & conversational interfaces I have been playing with a few bots to make some of our internal tools easier to reach from Slack (but mainly a self-hosted Mattermost instance). I am using the Botman package (https://botman.io) to code them with php. Getting them done has been very simple. Very handy to get notifications on problems and to do quick lookups of data through the bot and into the channel. Installation BotMan - Create messaging bots in PHP with ease<https://botman.io/> botman.io Edit on Installation. Installation & Setup; Basic Usage; Cache Drivers; BotMan is a framework agnostic PHP library that is designed to simplify the task of developing ... Now I’m looking to leverage natural language parsing (trying out first with this service https://api.ai). It definitely has a lot of potential for both internal and external users. [http:[log in to unmask]]<https://api.ai/> Conversational UX Platform for products and services - API.AI<https://api.ai/> api.ai Want to build real multi-channel intelligence into your product? API.AI is the most mature Natural Language Understanding platform in the market. -- Noel — Noel Díaz Instruction & Research Services Administrator Information Technology Department Purdue University Libraries E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: 765-494-1787 On 2/23/17, 2:14 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Emily Ferrier" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi all, We're doing some preliminary research on the use of chatbots/conversational interfaces in libraries. I looked at Code4Lib list archives and journal and found a couple of old threads. If you are working on something in this realm and are interesting in sharing, I'd love to talk! Right now we're considering a Slack integration, but would like to know what others have done (particularly, platform agnostic tools), considered, what worked and what didn't work. Thanks! Emily Emily Ferrier Library | Senior Librarian Olin College of Engineering 1000 Olin Way| Needham, MA 02492-1200 Tel: 781-292-2386 | http://library.olin.edu<http://library.olin.edu/> Leading the Revolution in Engineering Education [278]