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A Short Survey on Chatbot Technology: Failure in Raising the State of the Art

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Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 16th International Conference (DCAI 2019)

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Abstract

This short survey aimed initially to explore the existing state of the art for the application of chatbot on fighting (and not on spreading) of fake-news. It was then realized that there is not common to use chatbots with this “virtuous” purpose. Therefore, after two surveys and a meta-analysis, the topic had to be withdrawn since there were no survey results to discuss besides the absence of results. The survey result raised then a need to realize how chatbots are being currently used, designed and their primary sources. The result was once again confusing since, on the sample: (1) no significant concentration of usage could be found; (2) no widely adopted design strategies were identified, and (3) no significant crosscutting references to be considered as primary sources. Certainly, this can be due to a biased sample but may also be a symptom of a methodological issue on the chatbot researches. If the second possibility is proved to be right it means that chatbot research is still on a pre-paradigm stage according to Kuhn’s conception. For this paper, there were performed 4 surveys with a total sample of 50 papers mostly from the last 3 years.

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This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2019.

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    Francisco Supino Marcondes, José João Almeida & Paulo Novais

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Marcondes, F.S., Almeida, J.J., Novais, P. (2020). A Short Survey on Chatbot Technology: Failure in Raising the State of the Art. In: Herrera, F., Matsui , K., Rodríguez-González, S. (eds) Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 16th International Conference. DCAI 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1003 . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23887-2_4

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