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Chatbots

A chatbot (also known as a talkbot, chatterbot, Bot, IM bot, interactive agent, or Artificial Conversational Entity) is a computer program or an artificial intelligence which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods. | Source: wikipedia.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Training
  • Tutorials
  • Videos
• Coding
  • Code
  • Tools
• Awesome projects & cool demos
• Community
  • People you should know
• News
• Additional resources

Introduction

At Esri different teams (Esri R&D DC Center, Esri Spain Tech and Innovation team, ...) have been prototyping different chatbots, here you will find some resources to help you understand those projects.

Training

Tutorials

How to get started developing your own bots:

• The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Chatbots..
• The Secret To Making Your Own Facebook Messenger Bot In Less Than 15 Minutes.
• How to create a chatbot without coding a single line
• How To Build Bots for Messenger.
• Creating A Chat Bot.
• A Beginner’s Guide To Your First Bot.
• Pair Programming a Facebook Messenger Bot.
• A beginner’s guide to your first bot
• Facebook Chatbot Tutorial

Acknowledgment: This list has been extracted from https://github.com/hackerkid/bots#tutorials

Videos

We have created a GIS Bots Youtube playlist that we think it might be worth to you to save (how to save a Youtube Playlist).

On video.esri.com and Esri Events you could find more technical talks.

You might also find interesting videos at Esri Industries, ArcGIS, EsriTV, Esri R&D Center etc |DevSummit 2017|GIS, BIM, and Indoor Mapping|29min 48secs

Coding

Code

Github:

• sonar: Chat bot for asking questions about your community with ArcGIS Open Data
• gis-talk-bot: It help anyone to search content within an ArcGIS organization

More at ArcGIS Search

Tools

Tools for building bots

Awesome projects & cool demos

• Sonar presentation at Developer Summit 2017
• GIS Talk bot by Esri Spain

Community

If you are looking for help on Chatbots in general you might ask on Stackoverflow, but if you are build an ArcGIS Chatbot you should probably ask your questions on the REST API group on GeoNet and mention one of the experts on GeoNet.

People you should know

Please find the ArcGIS Experts on this topic using this tool:

They don't work on the support team and some may even not work at Esri, but they are opening some projects and sharing insights related to this technology so we recommend you to follow them.

News

GIS talk bot - Hack the Map II hackathon results

Additional resources

Probably not all the resources are in this list, please use the ArcGIS Search tool looking for: "BIM".