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I-ChatbIT: An intelligent chatbot for the Italian Language

Arianna PipitoneVincenzo CannellaRoberto Pirrone

subject

Italian LanguageGraph matchingChatbotFluid Construction Grammar

description

A novel chatbot architecture for the Italian language is presented that is aimed at implementing cognitive under- standing of the query by locating its cor- respondent subgraph in the agent’s KB by means of a graph matching strategy pur- posely devised. The FCG engine is used for producing replies starting from the se- mantic poles extracted from the candidate answers’ subgraphs. The system imple- ments a suitable disambiguation strategy for selecting the correct answer by analyz- ing the commonsense knowledge related to the adverbs in the query that is embed- ded in the lexical constructions of the ad- verbs themselves as a proper set of fea- tures. The whole system is presented, and a complete example is reported throughout the paper.

https://doi.org/10.12871/clicit2014157