Stack Overflow Assistant Chatbot Using NLP Techniques

Abstract

Searching on the Stack Overflow website, a platform for the programming community that features questions and answers on an extensive range of computer programming topics, can be arduous, laborious, and time-consuming at times. Aimed to address this issue, this paper proposes a conversational chatbot to assist with Stack Overflow search. The dialogue chatbot will answer questions related to programming and simulate dialogue and chit-chat on all non-programming-related questions, thus helping users find answers to programming questions present on the Stack Overflow website and also holding conversations with them. Using an access token, the bot is integrated with the Telegram messenger application that serves as a medium for a user to ask questions and for the bot to respond to them. This integration enables us to talk to the bot in Telegram. Results show that the selected algorithms are in accordance with the implementation of the chatbot approach with good test accuracies.