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    Chatbots

    In this project you will make a chatbot that can answer questions
    about a topic of your choice.

    This project worksheet is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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    1. Decide on a topic for your chatbot
    Choose something that you know well enough to be able to answer
    questions about.
    It could be a place (e.g. The town where you live?)
    It could be an animal (e.g. Tigers? Dinosaurs?)
    It could be an organisation (e.g. Your school)
    It could be something from history (e.g. Vikings? Romans?)
    For the rest of this worksheet, I’ll be using owls

    2. Think of five things someone might ask about your topic


    e.g. for owls, this could be:
    * What do owls eat?
    * Where in the world do owls live?
    * How long do owls live?
    * What types of owls are there?
    * How big do owls grow?

    3. Go to https://machinelearningforkids.co.uk/ in a web browser

    4. Click on “Get started”

    5. Click on “Log In” and type in your username and password


    If you don’t have a username, ask your teacher or group leader to create
    one for you.
    If you can’t remember your username or password, ask your teacher or
    group leader to reset it for you.

    6. Click on “Projects” on the top menu bar

    7. Click the “+ Add a new project” button.

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    8. Name your project and set it to learn how to recognise “text”.
    Click the “Create” button

    9. Click on your new project in the projects list

    10. Click the Train button.

    11. Click the “+ Add new label” button

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    12. Type in one word that sums up the first of your things from Step 2,
    then click Add.
    I used “food” to sum up questions like “What do owls eat?”

    13. Do that again for all of the things in your list from Step 2
    The words you choose don’t really matter, as long as you understand
    what they mean.

    14. Click the “+ Add example” button in one of the buckets

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    15. Type in an example of how someone might ask that question

    16. Click “Add”

    17. Repeat until you’ve got five examples of how to ask that question.

    18. Repeat until you’ve got at least five examples in every bucket

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    19. Click on the “< Back to project” link

    20. Click the “Learn & Test” button

    21. Click the “Train new machine learning model” button


    As long as you’ve collected enough examples, the computer should start
    to learn how to recognise questions from the examples you’ve given to it.

    22. Wait for the training to complete.


    This might take a couple of minutes.
    It’s finished once you see the “status” change to “Available”

    23. Click the “< Back to project” link

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    24. Click the “Make” button

    25. Click “Scratch 3”

    26. Click the “Open in Scratch” button

    27. Open the Owls project template


    Click Project templates and find Owls in the list of templates

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    28. Create this little snippet of script but don’t attach it to anything yet
    Make sure you choose “owl says” for the orange block.

    29. Duplicate it four times and join them all together


    Right-click on it, and click “Duplicate”

    30. Fill in each copy of the block


    Drag the label for one of your questions into the top space, and
    Type the answer to the question into the bottom space

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    31. Drag this new block into the Green Flag block prepared for you.
    Remove the “Sorry. I haven't been taught anything yet.” block and
    replace it with your new chunk of script.

    32. Draw your chatbot


    Unless you’ve chosen owls as a topic, you’ll need to draw your own character
    If you provide different costumes, you can animate your character while it talks.

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    33. Test your chatbot!
    Click the green flag and try asking the owl a question

    What have you done so far?

    You’ve started to train a computer to recognise questions on a topic.


    Instead of trying to write rules to be able to do this, you did this by
    collecting examples. These examples were used to train a machine
    learning “model”.

    This is called “supervised learning” because of the way you are


    supervising the computer’s training.

    The computer will learn from patterns in the examples you’ve given it,
    such as the choice of words, and the way questions are structured. These
    will be used to be able to recognise new questions.

    The biggest problem with this is that if you ask it something unexpected,
    it will still give you one of the answers you’ve written

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    34. Create this little chunk of script, that you can use when someone
    asks a question that wasn’t on your list from step 2.
    The confidence score is a percentage (from 0 to 100).
    It will be lower if someone asks a question that isn’t similar to any of the
    examples you used to train the machine learning model.
    Use this to return a “I don’t understand” message if the score is too low.

    35. Add this into your script from before.

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    Ideas and Extensions

    Now that you’ve finished, why not give one of these ideas a try?

    Or come up with one of your own?

    Try other chatbots


    http://talktothetrex.com is a good example of the sort of
    thing you’ve made. Give it a try and see if you can get any
    ideas of how to improve your bot.

    Add more topics


    Can you add more topics to your chatbot, so that there are
    more types of question that it can answer?

    Provide alternate answers


    If someone asks the same question more than once, they’ll
    get the exact same answer every time.

    Can you update your Scratch script so that it varies the


    answers each time a little? Or just starts the answer with
    “You’ve asked me this before, but”

    Ask follow-up questions


    Can you update your Scratch script so that it replies with a
    question? It can then recognise the answer to that question,
    in a similar way to how you made it recognise questions.

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