Open Data Chatbot

TL;DR

This paper explores combining chatbots with open government data to enable non-expert users to discover datasets through dialogue, enhancing transparency and citizen participation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach integrating chatbots with open data to facilitate user-friendly data discovery for non-experts.

Findings

Demonstrates the feasibility of dialogue-based open data discovery

Enhances user engagement with government datasets

Supports transparency and citizen participation

Abstract

Recently, chatbots received an increased attention from industry and diverse research communities as a dialogue-based interface providing advanced human-computer interactions. On the other hand, Open Data continues to be an important trend and a potential enabler for government transparency and citizen participation. This paper shows how these two paradigms can be combined to help non-expert users find and discover open government datasets through dialogue.