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Review of Platforms and Frameworks for Building Virtual Assistants

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Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST 2023)

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Virtual assistants offer a new type of solution to handle interaction between human and machine and can be applied in various business contexts such as Industry or Education. When designing and building a virtual assistant the developers must ensure a set of parameters to achieve a good solution. Various platforms and frameworks emerged to allow developers to create virtual assistant solutions easier and faster. This paper provides a review of available platforms and frameworks used by authors to create their own solutions in different areas. Big tech companies like Google with Dialogflow, IBM with Watson Assistant and Microsoft with Bot Framework, present mature solutions to build virtual assistants that provide to the developer all components of the basic architecture to build a fast and solid solution. Open-Source solutions focus on providing to the developer the main components to build a virtual assistant, namely language understanding and response generation.

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Acknowledgment

The study was developed under the project A-MoVeR – “Mobilizing Agenda for the Development of Products & Systems towards an Intellingent and Green Mobility”, operation n.o̱ 02/C05-i01.01/2022.PC646908627-00000069, approved under the terms of the call n.o̱ 02/C05-i01/2022 – Mobilizing Agendas for Business Innovation, financed by European funds provided to Portugal by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), in the scope of the European Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), framed in the Next Generation UE, for the period from 2021 -2026.

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  1. Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

    Rodrigo Pereira, Claudio Lima, Arsénio Reis, Tiago Pinto & João Barroso

  2. NESC-TEC, Vila Real, Portugal

    Arsénio Reis, Tiago Pinto & João Barroso

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  1. ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Cávado, Portugal

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  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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  3. Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

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  4. DCT, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

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Pereira, R., Lima, C., Reis, A., Pinto, T., Barroso, J. (2024). Review of Platforms and Frameworks for Building Virtual Assistants. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Colla, V. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 801. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45648-0_11

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