Laura: um chatterbot para responder perguntas sobre Java

Abstract

One of the factors that have the greatest impact on the exit of higher education students in Information Technology is the difficulty in learning to program. This difficulty can be associated to several reasons, and the absence of synchronous interactions is one of the main ones. This work aims to present a possible solution to the problem of programming learning through synchronous interactions. The Laura Chatterbot was built to answer questions about Java programming. Data mining techniques were used to extract knowledge from the online discussion forum StackOverflow to serve as Laura’s knowledge base. Laura was developed with a Multiagent architecture, keeping the system distributed and autonomous.