A Vietnamese Text-Based Conversational Agent

This paper introduces a Vietnamese text-based conversational agent architecture on specific knowledge domain which is integrated in a question answering system. When the question answering system fails to provide answers to users' input, our conversational agent can step in to interact with users to provide answers to users. Experimental results are promising where our Vietnamese text-based conversational agent achieves positive feedback in a study conducted in the university academic regulation domain.

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