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INSCI 2017: Internet Science pp 236–248Cite as

An Overview of Open-Source Chatbots Social Skills

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This paper aims to analyze and compare some of the most known open source chatbot technologies focusing on their potential to model a conversational agent able to show a form of “social intelligence”. The main features and drawbacks of each system will be examined. Then, we will discuss their flexibility to produce more realistic social conversational scenarios adopting as the reference the social practice theory.

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Notes

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    A lexical database (https://wordnet.princeton.edu).

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    Natural Language processing toolkit (http://www.nltk.org/).

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    Façade is a toolkit to describe semi structured conversations between virtual characters that are interacting in a specific physical environment.

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    According to [24], a functional segment is a portion of a dialogue that has a communicative function.

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  1. ICAR - National Research Council of Italy, Via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, Italy

    Agnese Augello

  2. ITD - National Research Council of Italy, Via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, Italy

    Manuel Gentile

  3. Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, De Uithof, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

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  2. Information Technologies Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  4. National Center for Scientific Research, Agia Paraskevi, Greece

    Michail Vafopoulos

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Augello, A., Gentile, M., Dignum, F. (2018). An Overview of Open-Source Chatbots Social Skills. In: Diplaris, S., Satsiou, A., Følstad, A., Vafopoulos, M., Vilarinho, T. (eds) Internet Science. INSCI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10750. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77547-0_18

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