Publications

@inproceedings{messinaBioGraphBotConversationalAssistant2018,

title = {BioGraphBot: A Conversational Assistant for Bioinformatics Graph Databases},

author = { Antonio Messina and Agnese Augello and Giovanni Pilato and Riccardo Rizzo},

editor = { L Barolli and T Enokido},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-61542-4_12},

isbn = {978-3-319-61542-4 978-3-319-61541-7},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {INNOVATIVE MOBILE AND INTERNET SERVICES IN UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, IMIS-2017},

volume = {612},

pages = {135--146},

publisher = {SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG},

address = {GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND},

series = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},

abstract = {Chatbots technology allows to easily add a conversational interface to a large set of applications. In this paper, we show a conversational agent based on ALICE framework aimed at playing the role of interface between human users and a bioinformatics graph database. The system has been embedded into the web frontend of BioGraphDB, a publicly available resource that uses Gremlin as the primary query language. To be successfully exploited, domain experts, such as biologists and bioinformaticians, should also have familiarity with that query language. The use of a chatbot allows translating queries expressed in natural language to queries expressed in Gremlin, simplifying the interaction with BioGraphDB.},

keywords = {Biomedical, Chatbots, Gremlin, Human computer interaction},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{messina_biographbot_2018,

title = {BioGraphBot: A Conversational Assistant for Bioinformatics Graph Databases},

author = {Antonio Messina and Agnese Augello and Giovanni Pilato and Riccardo Rizzo},

editor = {L Barolli and T Enokido},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-61542-4_12},

isbn = {978-3-319-61542-4 978-3-319-61541-7},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {INNOVATIVE MOBILE AND INTERNET SERVICES IN UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, IMIS-2017},

volume = {612},

pages = {135–146},

publisher = {SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG},

address = {GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND},

series = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},

abstract = {Chatbots technology allows to easily add a conversational interface to a large set of applications. In this paper, we show a conversational agent based on ALICE framework aimed at playing the role of interface between human users and a bioinformatics graph database. The system has been embedded into the web frontend of BioGraphDB, a publicly available resource that uses Gremlin as the primary query language. To be successfully exploited, domain experts, such as biologists and bioinformaticians, should also have familiarity with that query language. The use of a chatbot allows translating queries expressed in natural language to queries expressed in Gremlin, simplifying the interaction with BioGraphDB.},

keywords = {Biomedical, Chatbots, Gremlin, Human computer interaction},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}