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A Performance Comparison of Different Cloud-Based Natural Language Understanding Services for an Italian e-Learning Platform

Matteo Zubani    
Luca Sigalini    
Ivan Serina    
Luca Putelli    
Alfonso E. Gerevini and Mattia Chiari    

Resumen

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the corporate online training sector has increased exponentially and online course providers had to implement innovative solutions to be more efficient and provide a satisfactory service. This paper considers a real case study in implementing a chatbot, which answers frequently asked questions from learners on an Italian e-learning platform that provides workplace safety courses to several business customers. Having to respond quickly to the increase in the courses activated, the company decided to develop a chatbot using a cloud-based service currently available on the market. These services are based on Natural Language Understanding (NLU) engines, which deal with identifying information such as entities and intentions from the sentences provided as input. To integrate a chatbot in an e-learning platform, we studied the performance of the intent recognition task of the major NLU platforms available on the market with an in-depth comparison, using an Italian dataset provided by the owner of the e-learning platform. We focused on intent recognition, carried out several experiments and evaluated performance in terms of F-score, error rate, response time, and robustness of all the services selected. The chatbot is currently in production, therefore we present a description of the system implemented and its results on the original users? requests.

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