A brief history

My Chat bot was mainly to be used in Facebook Messenger where you ask it to find a document for you in French or English and it uses NLP behind the scene to extract key words that will later help to find the files in the database 

For the NLP (Natural Language Processing), I used Dialogflow

I realized the same idea can be applied in many other ways, one idea that came in mind was  to find Professional workers nearby, every worker (Plumber, Electrician, Painter...) would register in the bot with very simple process.

and then people would  ask the chat bot to find them a Professional worker and it would search the Database and provide them with a list of worker and their phone numbers.

Now, this idea might not be very useful in other places, but in Algeria, there is really no better mean to find workers, the only other way is to ask around which is time consuming to say the least.

This chat bot app can even grow to include a rating system so that Good Workers are encouraged and displayed to users more often.

We would add training phrases in Dialogflow to ensure good NLP and keyword extraction, I created Entities for each Worker with all possible wordings in 3 languages to increase the chances of understanding what the user is looking for.

The image below shows that the Chat bot understood the words that we provided and started searching, no result is displayed yet because the Database that will contain all workers and their phone numbers was still in early stages.

One more idea that I thought about shortly after the previous one was a Job application processing app, where the chat bot will receive resumes/CV from all sorts of job applications and will chat with users to identify the type of job they are applying for (so this means the bot can handle a large amount of job selection processes and can reduce the time spent to produce a shortlist of candidates. companies who are hiring can provide us with a set of questions to be asked to users applying for the job, this way the bot will select possible candidates based on the answers of the users.

The idea to use a chat bot to process job applications is not new but I wanted to make custom made one for Algerians.

The video below shows an example of a Fake Hiring process where the Bot is chatting with user for Job application for Coca cola

Thanks to Dialogflow, the same chat bot can be integrated with many other platforms 

,This is slightly different than what I showed above, but I used the same principle of NLP with Dialogflow to create a voice assistant with  the help of Actions on Google.

The assistant will find doctors and clinics for users for a specific location that they choose.

Again, this is made using a small database of doctors I scraped from website for Algeria.