SHIHbot: A Facebook chatbot for sexual health information on HIV/AIDS

Jacqueline Brixey, Rens Hoegen, Wei Lan, Joshua Rusow, Karan Singla, Xusen Yin, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski

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    Abstract

    We present the implementation of an autonomous chatbot, SHIHbot, deployed on Facebook, which answers a wide variety of sexual health questions on HIV/AIDS. The chatbot's response database is compiled from professional medical and public health resources in order to provide reliable information to users. The system's backend is NPCEditor, a response selection platform trained on linked questions and answers; to our knowledge this is the first retrieval-based chatbot deployed on a large public social network.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSIGDIAL 2017 - 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference
    PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
    Pages370-373
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)9781945626821
    StatePublished - 2017
    Event18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2017 - Saarbrucken, Germany
    Duration: Aug 15 2017Aug 17 2017

    Publication series

    NameSIGDIAL 2017 - 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

    Conference

    Conference18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2017
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CitySaarbrucken
    Period08/15/1708/17/17

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