Building AgriRef: an AI embedded virtual reference app for farmers

Building AgriRef: an AI embedded virtual reference app for farmers

Keywords:Agriculture, Website, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reference Services, Chatbot, Telegram
Abstract:Building AgriRefan AI embedded virtual reference app for farmers Purpose This paper aims to discuss the process of building a 247 reference platform for facilitating the farmers with the easy access of information at any time from any locationIt takes the text string as input and process it to respond with the desired result to the userDesignmethodologyapproach An interactive Web-based chatbot named as AgriRef was developed using free version of DialogflowThe intents were defined based on the conversation flow diagramFurthermorethe application was integrated with website on local server and telegram applicationFindings With this chatbot applicationthe farmers will able to get answers of their queriesIt provides the human-like conversational interface to the farmersIt will also be useful for librarians of agricultural libraries to save time in answering common queriesOriginalityvalue This paper describes the various steps involved in developing the chatbot application using DialogflowConsulting ServiceThis application will help libraists in the agricultural library and save them time to answer common questionsThis article discusses an interactive web chat robot Agriref developed using Dialogflowwhich aims to provide farmers with a 24X7 reference platform so that they can easily obtain information anytimeanywhereChat robots receive text string as input and process to respond to the needs of the userThis involves the technology of natural language processingNLPbecause it needs to understand and respond to human language