Implementation of Chatbot technology for Hungarian language

Abstract

Nowadays we are witnessing the rise of chatbots, which are intelligent software products that use artificial intelligence. Their era started with the emergence of Apple's Siri virtual assistant, which was the first application with a user interface incorporating natural language processing. Since then there have been a tremendous amount of chatbot apps built on websites and in mobile applications. Their main benefit is that they can answer questions from unlimited number of users in real-time and some of them can even learn  automatically. There exist domain-specific chatbots and also more general, human-like applications that can infer and apply information from several databases. The first chatbots communicated in English, but by now we can find Hungarian-speaking chatting robots as well. This paper aims at reviewing the history of chatting robots and reports on a test system that was developed for examining their implementation for Hungarian language.