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BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE,
PILANI
VIDYA VIHAR, PILANI, RAJASTHAN -
333031.
Contents
1. Broad Area of Work
3
2. Background
3
3 Objectives
4. Scope of Work
4
5. Plan of Work
4
6 Literature References
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7. Particulars of the Supervisor and Examiner 6
8 Remarks of the Supervisor 6
1. Broad Area of Work
Conversational agent and chat bots are new research areas in current era of Information
Science. The broad range of our project include current Artificial intelligence,
Information retrieval and extractions techniques. The current research project focus in
the following application areas:
" Natural language processing: To extract the right information
" Knowledge representation: To store information during the interrogation
Automated reasoning: To use both new and stored information and to draw new
conclusions and reasons
Machine learning: To adapt and detect new patterns
2. Backgro und
Technologies are getting smart day by day. These smart technologies have become an
essential part of human lives. In today's era people are more dependent on web search
to seek information. Searching for information on web could also be stressful for the
user and increase the cognitive load. Asmart search agent is in high demand.
Aconversational agent (intelligent agent) would act as an intermediary between the
user and the web search engine. The conversational search agent helps the user in order
to get the desired seeking information by reducing the cognitive load and increase the
effectiveness of search.
3. Objectives
The objectives of my project are as follows:
Understand the current scenario with respect to the chat bot and need of smart
search.
" Designing an agent that act as a human intermediary between human and web
search engine.
Building a conversational searh agent (intelliget agent) to assist
searching their queries on web engine. 4 |/8
" Validation of the prototype is the key component of our project.
research plan for the current project Is to do the user evaluation of the current
prototype.
4. Scope of Work
Scope of this dissertation is to design a conversational search agent (dialogue based)
which searches the searcher queries on web search engine and provide the desired
information to the user.
5. Plan of Work
Phases Start Date-End Date Work to be done
Dissertation 13 Jan 2019- 21Jan 2019 Literatu re Review and pre pare
Dissertation Outline
Outline
22 Jan 2019- 15 Feb 2019 Design & Develop me nt Activity
Design &
Development
16 Feb 2019 - 13 Mar 2019 Software Testing, User Evaluation
Testing
& Conclusion
14 Mar 2019-25 Mar 2019 Submit Dissertation to
Dissertation
Supervisor Additional
Review
Examiner for re view and
feedback
26 Mar 2019-30 Mar 2019 Final Review and submission of
Submission
Dissertation
6. Literature References
The state art is the base for any successful research project. In current project, the
literature inclined towards the new domain of conversational information retrieval is
considered. The following are referred journals from the preliminary literature review.
[1) S. Avula, G. Chadwick, J. Arguello, and R. Capra. Searchbots: User engagement with
chatbots during collaborative search. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human
Information Interaction & Retrieval, pages 52-61. ACM, 2018.
[27 N. Belkin. Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval.
The Canadian Journal of Information Science, 5:133-143, 1980.
[3] P. J. Daniels, H. M. Brooks, and N. J. Belkin. Using problem structures for driving
human-computer dialogues. In Proceedings of RIAO 1985, 1985.
14] [Link]. Words versus pictures: Leveraging the research on visual communication.
Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 10(1),
2015.
[5] A. Kaushik and G. J. F. Jones. Exploring curent user web search behaviours in
analysis tasks to be supported in conversational search. In Second International
Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'18), July 12,
2018, Ann Arbor Michigan, USA, 2018.
[6] J. R. Trippas, D. Spina, L. Cavedon, H. Joho, and M. Sanderson. Informing the
design of spoken conversational search: Perspective paper. In Proceedings of the 2018
Conference on Human information Interaction & Retrieval, CHIR '18, pages 32-41,
New York, NY, USA, 2018. ACM.
[7]J. R. Trippas, D. Spina, L. Cavedon, and M. Sanderson. How do people interact in
conversational speech-only search tasks: Apreliminary analysis. In Proceedings of the
2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR
"17, pages 325-328, New York, NY, USA, 2017. ACM.
7. Particulars of the Supervisor and Examiner
Supervisor Additional Examiner
Name
Qualification
Designation
Employing
Organization
and Location
Phone No.
(with STD
Code)
Email Address
8. Remarks of the Supervisor
The study and project seem to very promising. The student had covered all the relevant
literature review. The project is holding the current domain of research and justified the
level of dissertation for master studies. The outcome covered by the project seems very
interesting and include all the state of arts in today's era of lnformation science. The project
also includes the user study on the working prototype. This activity completely validates
the research project. This project also contains the prospect of publication in future. After
the initial meeting with the student, Igot an impression that she is hard working student
and have the skills to implement the experiment in standard research paradigm. l approved
the following project as the supervisor.
Information about the Supervisor:
BIRLA INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY &SCIENCE, PILANI
WORK INTEGRATED LEARNING PROGRAMMES (WILP) DIVISION
SECOND SEMESTER OF ACADEMICYEAR 2021-2022
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1. Cover Page with Student ID No., Name, Course Number, Course Ttle and Dissertation / Project /
Project Work Title, Broad Academic Area of Work.
2. Background (Relevance of the Project to the current work environment in the employing
organization)
3. Objectives
4. Scope of Work (To be done by the student independently)
5. Plan of Work (Work to be done during the semester)
6. Literature References
7. Particulars of the Supervisor and Additional Examiner
8. Remarks of the Supervisor
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