FCA-based Approach for Interactive Query Refinement with IR-chatbots

Information retrieval (IR) chatbot is a special class of virtual assistants, which is widely used nowadays in customer support services. However, the work of modern IR retrieval systems is limited by simple queries to the database, which does not utilize all the potential of interaction with the user. In this paper we implement an FCA-based approach to deliver the relevant information the user has requested. A developing approach integrates a concept-based model build upon the database and intelligent traversal through it. The proposed algorithm has been implemented as an additional function within the existing IR chatbot. In this paper we also enlighten the perspectives for further development of the proposed system. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) technique and Pattern Structures as its extension are proposed to process unstructured data (objects with a text description), which has become a common way of presenting various items recently.