A Virtual Assistant Chatbot for College Advising System

Abstract

This paper proposes the merging of different Techniques for the implementation of an artificially intelligent Chatbot with which the users can interact with text or voice commands. Main objective for the Chatbot to be used as an information and advising system that helps postgraduate students in answering their different queries and respond and provide the best possible options for them. It is created using Visual C# (GUI) and SIML (Synthetic Intelligence Markup Language) as a knowledge base for the Chatbot and uses Microsoft SAPI for both speech synthesizer, and speech recognition with natural language processing abilities as well as providing a few different extra help for the students as a course list, schedule and more.