Reference number : GC-2017-Q3-00593, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Khoury, Richard (Université Laval), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Quebec|Québec, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for universities, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les universités, program purpose english : The private company B-CITI is working, in collaboration with several Canadian cities, to create a unified smart_x000D_
city app platform that will give citizens easy access to all their municipal services and visitors quick answers to_x000D_
their questions. However, designing a single user interface to access a multitude of different services in_x000D_
different cities while still being easy to understand by casual users has proved a major challenge. In this project,_x000D_
we propose to develop a conversational user interface that users can interact with as they would a friend in a_x000D_
messaging service. This interface will understand the user's questions and automatically query the different_x000D_
municipal services the platform has access to in order to discover the answer. It will then return that answer to_x000D_
the user in their on-going conversation, and through the continued conversation it will get the user's feedback_x000D_
and modify or refine the question and answer., program purpose french : The private company B-CITI is working, in collaboration with several Canadian cities, to create a unified smart_x000D_
city app platform that will give citizens easy access to all their municipal services and visitors quick answers to_x000D_
their questions. However, designing a single user interface to access a multitude of different services in_x000D_
different cities while still being easy to understand by casual users has proved a major challenge. In this project,_x000D_
we propose to develop a conversational user interface that users can interact with as they would a friend in a_x000D_
messaging service. This interface will understand the user's questions and automatically query the different_x000D_
municipal services the platform has access to in order to discover the answer. It will then return that answer to_x000D_
the user in their on-going conversation, and through the continued conversation it will get the user's feedback_x000D_
and modify or refine the question and answer., agreement title english : Conversational interface for smart city platform, agreement title french : Conversational interface for smart city platform, agreement number : EGP, agreement value : 25000.0, agreement start date : 2017-12-13, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada