Education: Starter Kit - Student Counsellor

VSCode and Jupyter Notebook are used for development and debugging. Jupyter Notebook is a web based interactive environment often used for experiments, whereas VSCode is used to get a typical experience of IDE for developers. Jupyter Notebook is used for our development.

For extensive analysis and exploration of data, and to deal with arrays, these libraries are used. They are also used for performing scientific computation and data manipulation. For building Virtual Agent, we use pandas to load, view and analyse data from csv file; and we use numpy to find out the indices of maximum values of an array.

Libraries in this group are used for analysis and processing of unstructured natural language. The data, as in its original form aren't used as it has to go through processing pipeline to become suitable for applying machine learning techniques and algorithms. We use py-lingualytics to manage pre-processing of data like removing numerical values, stopwords, punctuations and so on.

Machine learning libraries and frameworks here are helpful in capturing state-of-the-art embeddings. Embeddings are vectoral representation of text with their semantics. For generating sentence embedding, we use sentence-transformers with pretrained models. We reference bert-cosine-sim to build similarity engine for comparing two sets of input text.

Virtual Counsellor created using this kit are added in this section. The entire solution is available as a package to download from the source code repository.

For Windows OS, Download, extract and double-click kit_installer file to install the kit. Note: Do ensure to extract the zip file before running it. The installation may take from 2 to 10 minutes based on bandwidth. 1. When you're prompted during the installation of the kit, press Y to launch the app automatically and execute cells in the notebook by selecting Cell --> Run All from Menu bar to see how the chatbot works. It is loaded with minimal questions. 2. To run the app manually, press N when you're prompted and locate the zip file faq-virtual-agent.zip 3. Extract the zip file and navigate to the directory faq-virtual-agent-main 4. Open command prompt in the extracted directory faq-virtual-agent-main and run the command jupyter notebook For other Operating System, 1. Click here to install python 2. Click here to download the repository 3. Extract the zip file and navigate to the directory faq-virtual-agent-main 4. Open terminal in the extracted directory faq-virtual-agent-main 5. Install dependencies by executing the command pip install -r requirements.txt 6. Run the command jupyter notebook

Follow below instructions to run the solution. 1. Locate and open the Student Counsellor App.ipynb notebook from the Jupyter Notebook browser window. 2. Execute cells in the notebook by selecting Cell --> Run All from Menu bar For customizing to your Questions and Answers, 1. Open the input file faqs.csv in the faq-virtual-agent-main directory from the kit_installer.bat location 2. Update questions for training under the column Q and update corresponding answer in the column A 3. Execute cells in the notebook by selecting Cell --> Run All from Menu bar 4. Type in the query when you're prompted and hit Enter key Input file: faqs.csv - contains questions and answers to train You can additionally build interfaces to the chatbot and other enhancements for additional score. For any support, you can direct message us at #help-with-kandi-kits

1. While running batch file, if you encounter Windows protection alert, select More info --> Run anyway 2. During kit installer, if you encounter Windows security alert, click Allow

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