A Comprehensive review of Conversational Agent and its prediction algorithm

VIVA-Tech International Journal for Research and Innovation Volume 1, Issue 2 (2019)
ISSN(Online): 2581-7280 Article No. 7
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A Comprehensive review of Conversational Agent and its
prediction algorithm
Aditya M. Pujari1
, Rahul M. Dalvi1
, Kaustubh S. Gawde1
, Tatwadarshi P.
Nagarhalli1
1
(Computer Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, India)
Abstract: There is an exponential increase in the use of conversational bots. Conversational bots can be
described as a platform that can chat with people using artificial intelligence. The recent advancement has
made A.I capable of learning from data and produce an output. This learning of data can be performed by using
various machine learning algorithm. Machine learning techniques involves construction of algorithms that can
learn for data and can predict the outcome. This paper reviews the efficiency of different machine learning
algorithm that are used in conversational bot.
Keywords – Machine learning, Random Forest, Linear Regression, K-means, Chatbot.
1. INTRODUCTION
Artificial Intelligence is also known machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by different
machine [14]. Artificial Intelligence is defined as the research of intelligent agents, a device that can learn
information from environment and performs action that maximize the chances of successfully achieving its
goals. Modern machine capacities are generally classified as artificial appends successfully understanding
human speech, competing at the highest level in strategic game, independently operating cars, and intelligent
routing in content delivery networks and military simulations. Artificial intelligence research has been divided
into subfields that often fail to communicate with each other. These sub-fields are constructed on technical
consideration, which includes particular goals, the use of particular tools, or deep philosophical differences [14].
Artificial Intelligence often revolves around the use of algorithms. An algorithm is a set of unambiguous
instructions that a mechanical computer can execute. Complex algorithm is basically built on top of other,
simpler algorithms. Artificial Intelligence algorithm are capable of learning from data; they can enhance
themselves by learning new heuristics, or can themselves write different algorithms. Some of algorithm used
Bayesian network, decision trees and nearest-neighbor. This learning of data using different algorithm is known
as machine learning.
Machine learning is an interdisciplinary field that uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the
ability to learn from data, without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning explores the study and
construction of algorithm that can learn for and make prediction on data-such algorithms overcome following
strictly static program instructions by making data-driven and make prediction or decisions, through building a
model from sample inputs [13]. Machine learning is employed in a range of computing tasks where designing
and programming explicit algorithm with good performance is difficult or infeasible. Machine learning is related
to computational statistics, which also emphasis on prediction-making past the use of computers. Within the
field of data analytic, machine learning is a method used to devise complex models and algorithms that lend
themselves to prediction; in commercial use, this is known as predictive analytics [13]. These analytical models
let researchers, data scientists, engineers, and analysts to "construct reliable, repeatable decisions and results"
and uncover "hidden insights" through learning from historical relationships and trends in the data.
2. CONVERSATIONAL AGENT AND ITS PREDICTION ALGORITHM
2.1 Chatbot for University Related FAQS [18]
Artificial Intelligence conversational agents are becoming popular for web services and systems like
scientific, entertainment and commercial systems, and academia. But more effective human-computer interface
will take place by querying missing data by the user to provide satisfactory answer. User inquiries are first taken

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care by AIML check piece to check whether entered inquiry is AIML script or not. AIML is characterized with
general inquiries and welcome which is replied by utilizing AIML formats
2.2 Intelligent Chatbot for Easy Web-Analytics Insights[19]
The bot responses were analysed and were classified as wrong, default and correct. The correct
responses are the expected domain related answers. More importantly they were the correct answers. Whereas
the wrong responses are the bot response to the domain related answers which are wrong. This can be avoided
by further refining the bot. The default responses are the bot response to the general or unrelated queries. In this
paper, chatbot would enable bot users to just type in the query related to web analytics and will get response
immediately. This is to avoid the time consuming task of mastering a web analytics tool. The proposed chatbot
is developed using AIML and the data set is the raw analytics data.
2.3 Weather Monitoring using Artificial Intelligence [5]
The paper define weather prediction based on the previous dataset. They intend to develop an
Intelligence Weather predicting module since this is become a necessary tool. This tool consider measure such
as Maximum Temperature, Minimum Temperature and rainfall for sample period of day on the available dataset
and it is done by using machine learning techniques. The prediction and analysis is based on the Linear
Regression which predict the next day’s weather with good accuracy which is more than 90% is obtain on the
dataset. This technique is also gives better performance than the traditional statistical method. In this paper
simple Linear Regression is use for weather prediction and it will give better accuracy.
2.4 Rainfall prediction based on 100 years of Meteorological Data [8]
This paper mainly focused on use of the Data Mining techniques for predicting rainfall of an area on
basis of some dependent feature like precipitation and wet day frequency. Instead of taking current data they are
mainly focusing on the data collected till date from last 100 years’ data by the meteorological department. The
paper defines Data Mining technique using the Liner Regression Model on the data collected for wet day
frequency, precipitation and rainfall. The Liner Regression Model developed has been trained and validate
against the actual rainfall of the area, which further was used to predicting the rainfall in coming years.
The paper use Data mining technique with liner regression for predicting the rainfall and it mainly
focus on past dataset.
2.5 Rainfall prediction using modified Linear Regression [7]
Rainfall prediction on the historical data is trending in research point of view. The existing model use
the data mining technique for predicting the state of atmosphere at a given time of a weather variable like
rainfall, cloud conditions, temperature etc. The main problem here in this system is it does not provide an
estimate of the predicted rainfall. The proposed system calculates average of the value and understand the state
of atmosphere. In this paper it will use mathematical method called linear regression to predict the rainfall in
various state of India. The model provides estimate rainfall using different atmospheric attribute like average
temperature and cloud cover to predict the rainfall. The main advantages of this model is that the model estimate
the rainfall based on the previous correlation between the different parameter.
It uses the modified liner regression to perform the prediction of a rainfall where training and test data
are formed from the input data set.
2.6 Regression technique for the prediction of the Stock Price Trend [6]
The paper examines the theory and practice of the regression technique for prediction of stock price by
using the transformed data set in ordinal dataset. In this the original pre-transformed data source contain data of
heterogeneous data type use for handling of currency value and financial ratio. The data format in currency
value and financial ratio is used for computation of stock price. The data source are corporate annual reports
which include balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement. The paper showed that the outcomes of
regression technique can be improve for the prediction of stock price.
The outcome of regression technique can be improved when the input data was standardized into a common data
type through a customized transformation technique.
2.7 Prediction of Road Traffic Congestion Based on Random Forest [2]
The paper explains how the problem of traffic congestion is solved by using classification algorithm
random forest. The city area is divided in sections and prediction is done of the areas possible of having heavy
traffic. This is done by considering the environmental conditions such as Climate, Holiday, Road Condition etc.
The results show that the traffic prediction model established by using the random forest classification algorithm
has a prediction accuracy of 87.5%, and the generalization error is low, and it can be effectively predicted.

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The random forest algorithm has the characteristics of high robustness, high performance and high
practicability and it will efficiently predict the road traffic congestion.
2.8 Discovery and Prediction of the Unused Land for Construction Based on Random Forest [9]
In the management of land resources, not only solving the existing problems of the land, instead also
prediction of the problems of the land and prevention on land misuse are in demand urgently due to the
urbanization so that the propose system use Random Forest algorithm for prediction The main part in getting the
accurate result of this paper is the formation of the “Decision tree”. The most frequently used attribute selection
measures in decision tree induction are the Information Gain Ratio criterion and the Gini Index. Random Forest
classifier uses the Gini Index as an attribute selection measure. The utilization rate and the period (construction
days) between land supply and construction are calculated.
The use of Random Forest for the prediction of unused land is in trend. As the algorithm helps give
maximum output accuracy for the required search it is of great use.
2.9 Random forest classification of urban landscape using Landsat archive and ancillary data:
Combining seasonal maps with decision level fusion. [1]
In this paper the problem of urbanization is solved by using Random Forest algorithm along with
Landsat archive and ancillary data. It proposes a methodology to map the urban areas with multi-seasonal
Landsat data. The Random forest classifier and decision level fusion are applied. Shifting importance measure
are used to recognise the most important input layers. The annual maps have moderately high (>60%) overall
accuracies (OA). The proposed method can be successfully transferred to other years. The methodology was
applied to produce a detailed land use land cover map of National Capital Region of India. A second
classification involving seasonal maps with decision level fusion based on expert knowledge resulted in an
annual composite map with increased number of LULC classes.
The paper gives the general idea about the random forest algorithm of urban landscape.
2.10 Predicting Passenger Flow using Different Influence Factors for Taipei MRT System [10]
According to the statistical data, each day there are over one million passengers taking the MRT in
Taipei. In this paper, we will be predicting MRT passenger flow with random forest, by using different factors
collected from the Taipei Main station as input for training. In this paper, there are two categories of the factors,
which are main factor and support factor. The main factor is the history of passenger flow, which strongly
influences the results. As for the support factors is the temporal factor, such as the month and week and the
holiday factor, which can slightly increase the accuracy of the prediction.
In this paper, system use only the Taipei main station passenger flow to test the method. Here by taking
into consideration it can predict the approximate traffic of the people on occasion’s such as public holidays,
festivals, week days and week offs etc.
2.11 A Novel Clustering Algorithm Combining Niche Genetic Algorithm with Canopy and K-
means [4]
Each chromosome is made up of a sequence of genes coding. The number of genes of a chromosome is
randomly chosen where n is the number of data points, which is randomly selected a given data sets. Canopy is
usually employed to capture the number of clusters. The canopy method in this paper can automatically capture
the number of clusters as the initial population selection and does not need as an input parameter for the number
of clusters, which is used to improve multi peak values of canopy. The canopy method to randomly select a
number of clusters (K). Chromosomes are selected, which consist of the different number of clusters (K) using
canopies.
The paper defines Clustering Algorithm with Canopy which use for making effective cluster.
2.12 An improved K-means Cluster-based Routing Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks [3]
This paper proposes a cluster-based routing scheme based on an enhanced version of K-means
approach. The improved version of K-means generates balanced clusters in the network, which does not
overload one cluster-head over the others unlike LEACH where one of the generated clusters may contain a
large number of nodes and another contains a small number of members. Besides, the election of the cluster-
heads is done in a distributed manner after each period. This paper proposes a cluster-based routing scheme
based on an enhanced version of K-means approach.
The improved version of K-means generates balanced clusters in the network, which does not overload
one cluster-head over the others unlike LEACH where one of the generated clusters may contain a large number
of nodes and another contains a small number of members.

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2.13 K-Means Clustering Algorithm Based on Improved Cuckoo Search Algorithm and Its
Application [11]
K-means algorithm is a clustering algorithm based on partition. Because of its simplicity and
efficiency, it has become one of the most widely used clustering algorithms. However, there are two
shortcomings in the original K-means algorithm: firstly, the difference between each clustering result is greatly
affected by the initial class centre; secondly, it is easy to fall into the local optimal solution. The original cuckoo
algorithm is influenced by step size A and probability of discovery P, and the step size and discovery probability
control the accuracy of CS algorithm global and local search, which has great influence on the optimization
effect of algorithm. The step size and discovery probability of the CS algorithm are set to a fixed value at
initialization and will not change in subsequent iterations. When the step size is set too large, reducing the
search accuracy, easy convergence, step length is too small, reducing the search speed, easy to fall into the local
optimal.
K-Means algorithm is easy to fall into the local optimum and the Cuckoo search (CS) algorithm is
affected by the step size
2.14 An Improved Sampling K-means Clustering Algorithm Based on MapReduce [12]
In the literature present an agglomerative fuzzy K-means clustering algorithm for numerical data, an
extension to the standard fuzzy K-means algorithm by introducing a penalty term to the objective function to
make the clustering process not sensitive to the initial cluster centres. The MapReduce programming model is
mainly composed of two abstract classes, Mapper and Reducer. Mapper processes the cut raw data, Reducer
summarizes the intermediate results produced by Mapper and obtains the final result.
The paper extends the K-means clustering process to calculate a weight for each dimension in each
cluster and use the weight values to identify the subsets of important dimensions that categorize different
clusters.
3. ANALYSIS TABLE
Sr.
No.
Technical paper name Technique Used Dataset Used Accuracy
1.
Weather Monitoring Using
Artificial Intelligence [5].
Simple Linear
Regression
Weather Dataset,
Meteorological
Department Database.
90%
2.
Rainfall prediction based on
100 years of Meteorological
Data [8].
Linear Regression,
Data mining, K Fold
technique.
Rainfall Dataset,
Meteorological
NA
3.
Rainfall prediction using
modified Linear Regression [7].
Modified Linear
Regression.
Rainfall Dataset,
Meteorological
NA
4.
Regression technique for the
prediction of the Stock Price
Trend [6].
Regression technique
Companies Dataset; in
Bursa, Malaysia.
NA
5.
Prediction of Road Traffic
Congestion Based on Random
Forest [2].
Random forest.
1124 data from different
sections of Shanghai
traffic management
Department
87.05%

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6.
Discovery and Prediction of the
Unused Land for
Construction Based on Random
Forest [9].
Random Forest,
Data mining
3 different data sets
used
75.73
91.41
84.56
7.
Random forest classification of
urban landscape using Landsat
archive and ancillary data [1].
Decision level
Landsat Multi-season
Random forest
Landsat Dataset >60%
8.
Predicting Passenger Flow
using Different Influence
Factors for Taipei MRT System
[10].
Random forest Daily passenger data 94.3%
9.
A Novel Clustering Algorithm
Combining Niche Genetic
Algorithm with Canopy and K-
means [4].
Niche genetic
algorithm; k-means
clustering; Canopy
Iris, Balance, and Breast
Cancer
UCI database.
87%
10.
An improved K-means Cluster-
based Routing Scheme for
Wireless Sensor Networks [3].
K-Means. Energy Consumption. N.A
11.
K-Means Clustering Algorithm
Based on Improved Cuckoo
Search Algorithm and Its
Application [11].
K-Means;
cuckoo search
Iris, Wine, Seeds,
Haber man.
UCI database
N.A
12.
An Improved Sampling K-
means Clustering Algorithm
Based on MapReduce [12].
K-means; parallel
sampling;
Bag of Words data set
in the
UCI machine learning
library
85%
4. CONCLUSION
The paper provides a brief survey on various machine learning algorithm which are Random Forest,
Linear Regression, and k-means. The survey gives an outcome that larger dataset will provide better result. The
survey has shown that numeric prediction, categorical prediction or classification and clustering can be
implemented using machine learning algorithm. The study has shown that Random forest gives better results in
case of larger dataset whereas K-means is faster clustering algorithm comparing other unsupervised learning
algorithm. Simple Linear regression provide better accuracy on different datasets.
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