IIT-Guwahati develops chatbot ‘ALBELA’ to assist first year students

Praveen Kumar, professor, Department of EEE, IIT Guwahati, informed that the team had been working to develop the chatbot for the past seven months. “Seven research scholars of the department had worked on it. The response from the students has been overwhelming and we hope that this will become the new normal in the near future.”

Through ALBELA students can find their class schedule, tutorial schedule, examination queries. It also makes suggestions regarding preferred textbooks, reference books, notes, sample questions, etc. The chatbot is trained to answer all the queries related to the institute and its academic and administrative process, claims the institute.

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The initiative is structured on the IBM Cloud (both SQL based and JSON based) to contain structured data like attendance, quiz marks, mid/end-semester marks of each student, states the IIT. This will enable the student to access these details with a single query.