Towards Bootstrapping a Chatbot on Industrial Heritage through Term and Relation Extraction
Year: 2022

We describe initial work in developing a&#13;\nmethodology for the automatic generation of a&#13;\nconversational agent or ‘chatbot’ through term&#13;\nand relation extraction from a relevant corpus&#13;\nof language data. We develop our approach in&#13;\nthe domain of industrial heritage in the 18th&#13;\nand 19th centuries, and more specifically on&#13;\nthe industrial history of canals and mills in Ireland. We collected a corpus of relevant newspaper reports and Wikipedia articles, which&#13;