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ALMA: Machine learning breastfeeding chatbot

MMC.
2023;
Volume 10, Number 2
: pp. 487–497
https://doi.org/10.23939/mmc2023.02.487
Received: February 27, 2023
Accepted: April 06, 2023

Mathematical Modeling and Computing, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 487–497 (2023)

Authors:
  1. K. Achtaich
  2. N. Achtaich
  3. F. Z. Fagroud
  4. H. Toumi
1
Laboratory Information Technology and Modeling LTIM, Hassan II of Casablanca University
2
Modeling and Simulation Analysis Laboratory LAMS, Hassan II of Casablanca University
3
Laboratory Information Technology and Modeling LTIM, Hassan II of Casablanca University
4
Higher School of Technology, Sidi Bennour Chouaib Doukkali University El Jadida

Since the first computer, researchers always try to simulate human behave.  For Chatbots, one of the first goals is to interact with the user like a human using Natural Language.  For Health chatbots, another goal is as much important: be able to provide the correct answer to the user request.  Over Years, many health chatbots have been developed for many fields such as cancer, diagnosis orientation, psychiatrics, etc. breastfeeding companion are, however, rare (only two breastfeeding chatbots).  In this paper, we have developed ALMA, a Breastfeeding Chatbot (BC) that can converse with a breastfeeding mom throw natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language generation (NLG), and provide her – breastfeeding mom – with the relevant information using AIML knowledge base and CNN pre-trained model.  We made ALMA available for a normal WhatsApp conversation throw Twilio API.  ALMA was tested by volunteering breastfeeding moms and the results validated by breastfeeding consult.

breastfeeding chatbot
machine learning
опрацювання природної мови
artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence markup language
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