ABSTRACT
In this research work, a chatbot that will act as a virtual admission officer and make possible student – officer interaction is designed. A knowledge database (KDB) and pattern matching algorithm is used. The algorithm searches through the set of data to find a potential answer to the user’s enquiry and then replies the user or provides a relevant web link if the user is not satisfied with the answer. This reduces the burden on the head of admissions, and potentially other users. The web-based system is built using PHP as the Server Side Language. It utilizes jQuery on the client-side and MySQL Server as the database. The Knowledge base of the system is tailored using Artificial Intelligence Mark-Up Language (AIML) which was embedded into the Program-O PHP Library. This application of chatbot technology is an enhancement to University admission enquiries as it simulates the role of an admission officer for prospective university students.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Title page
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Table of Content
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abstract
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
1.2 Motivation for the Work
1.3 Statement of the Problem
1.4 Aim and Objectives
1.5 The Significance of Study
1.6 Scope and the Target Audience of the Study
1.7 Limitations to the Study
1.8 Definition of Terms
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 General Overview
2.2 Chabot Technology and Human Deception 6
2.3 The Imitation Game
2.4 Some Early Systems
2.4.1 ELIZA
2.4.2 PARRY
2.4.3 A.L.I.C.E
2.4.4 VPbot
2.4.5 Eugene Goostman 13
2.4.6 Artificially Intelligent Conversational Agents in Libraries 14
2.4.7 An Intelligent Internet Shop-Assistant 14
2.4.8 Dialogue-based CALL: a case study on teaching pronouns 15
2.4.9 Motivate Learners to Practice English through Playing with Chatbot CSIEC 16
2.4.10 Dialogue Based Assistant for Career Counseling 16
2.4.11 Interactive System with Artificial Intelligence 16
2.4.12 Designing a Chatbot for Diabetic Patients 16
2.4.13 Chatbot for admissions 17
2.4.14 Bringing Chatbots into Education
2.5 Elements of AIML 19
2.5.1 Categories
2.5.2 Types of ALICE/AIML Categories 20
2.6 Learning Chatbots 22
2.7 Interaction with humans 23
2.8 Summary of Related works
CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS
3.1 Methodology
3.1.1 Justification for the Choice of Methodology
3.2 Analysis of the Existing Systems
3.2.1 Existing Approach to Admission Enquiries in FUTO
3.2.2 Problems in the Existing approach
3.3 Analysis of the Existing System
3.3.1 Weaknesses of the Existing System
3.4 Analyses of the Proposed System
3.5 Web Applications
3.6 Functional Requirements
3.7 Non-Functional Requirements
3.8 Justification for the Proposed System
CHAPTER FOUR: SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
4.1 Design Objectives
4.2 Design Specification
4.3 Database Design
4.4 Keyword Matching Algorithm
4.5 Framework of the Proposed System
4.6 System Flow Chat
4.7 Choice and Justification of Programming Language Used
4.7.1 Database Server
4.7.2 Web Servers
4.7.3 HTML and CSS
4.7.4 Third Party Libraries (Program - O)
4.8 Implementation
4.8.1 Programming Tools
4.9. System Requirements
4.9.1 Hardware Requirements
4.9.2 Software Requirements
4.10 Testing and Evaluation
4.11 Result Analysis
4.11.1 Result Analysis Based on Perceived Usefulness
4.11.2 Analysis of the Result Based on Perceived Ease of Use
4.12 Documentation
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
5.1 Summary
5.2 Problems Encountered and Solution 67
5.3 Contribution to Knowledge 67
5.4 Conclusion 68
5.5 Recommendations for Future Work: 69
References
APPENDIX A SOURCE CODES
APPENDIX B SCREENSHOTS OF THE SYSTEM
B1 Admin Login Page
B2 User Interface
B3 Sample Conversation with the Chatbot
B4 Rating the Chatbot in Terms of Perceived Usefulness and Ease of Use
B5 Results of rating
B6 List of Sample Text
LIST OF FIGURES
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LIST OF FIGURES
Turing test involving a judge interrogating two hidden entities 9
A sample conversation with ELIZA 10
A sample conversation with ALICE 13
A sample conversation with Eugene 14
waterfall Methodology 28
Architecture of the Existing System 31
A Detailed Architecture of the Proposed System 32
Three Tier Architecture 33
Entity Relationship Diagram 37
the Difference between Search Engine and Matrix Engine 39
The Importance of Matrix Engine 39
High Level Design. 42
System Flow Chat 43
Back End User Interface 55
Graph of Perceive usefulness for group 1 56
Graph of Perceived ease of use for group 1. 57
Graph of Perceive usefulness for group 2 58
Graph of Perceived ease-of-use for group 2. 58
t distribution plot of PU25 and PU30 MEANS 61
t distribution plot of PEU25 AND PEU30 MEANS 63
Admin Login Page. 64
User Interface 65
Rating the System. 65
Results of Rating from Different Participants 66
LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.1:
Table 4.1: Table 4.2:
Table 4.3 Table 4.4: Table 4.5: Table 4.6:
LIST OF TABLES
List of Some Existing Chatbot 24
Input Specification 35
output Specification 36
Database Structure 36
keyword matching 41
Rating Result For group 1(users with maximum age of 25)
57 Rating result for group 2(users with minimum age of 30)
Onyinyechi, A (2021). Enhanced Admission Enquiries System Using Chatbot Technology. Afribary. Retrieved from https://afribary.com/works/enhanced-admission-enquiries-system-using-chatbot-technology
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