E-AGRO: Intelligent Chat-Bot. IoT and Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Farming Industry

Jayalath EkanayakeLuckshitha Saputhanthri

DOI 10.7160/aol.2020.120102
No 1/2020, March
pp. 15-21

Ekanayake, J. and Saputhanthri, L. (2020) “E-AGRO: Intelligent Chat-Bot. IoT and Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Farming Industry", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 15-21. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2020.120102.

Abstract

This study develops a chat room and a Chat–Bot to discuss the prevailing issues related to farming with peers and expertise and support farmers to make timely decision on farming. A standard set of questions was identified through discussions and surveys with farmers, expertise and other stakeholders. Intents, which the users might want to know, and examples, which the users use to explain a specific intent and entities that are different objects referring to an intent were identified from the questions. Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) was used to train a model, which predicts an intent based on the given example. The Chat-Bot was implemented in a cloud platform and therefore, the client end does not require more computational resources.

Keywords

Chat-Bot, Agriculture, Chat-room, Artificial Intelligence, Farming Industry, intents, examples.

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