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Water quality information dissemination at real-time in South Africa using language modelling

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dc.contributor.author Lourens, Roger L
dc.contributor.author Patra, A
dc.contributor.author Hassim, Luqmaan
dc.contributor.author Sima, Faheem
dc.contributor.author Moodley, Avashlin
dc.contributor.author Sharma, P
dc.date.accessioned 2019-04-01T09:22:27Z
dc.date.available 2019-04-01T09:22:27Z
dc.date.issued 2018-12
dc.identifier.citation Lourens, R.L. et al. 2018. Water quality information dissemination at real-time in South Africa using language modelling. Machine Learning for the Developing World (ML4D) Workshop, part of the 23rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), 8 December 2018, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Canada en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09745
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10893
dc.description Paper presented at the Machine Learning for the Developing World (ML4D) Workshop, part of the 23rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), 8 December 2018, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Canada en_US
dc.description.abstract We present a conversational model to apprise users with limited access to computational resources about water quality and real-time accessibility for a given location. We used natural language understanding through neural embedding driven approaches. This was integrated with a chatbot interface to accept user queries and decide on action output based on entity recognition from such input query and online information from standard databases and governmental and non-governmental resources. We present results of attempts made for some South African use cases, and demonstrate utility for information search and dissemination at a local level. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Worklist;22347
dc.subject Water quality en_US
dc.subject Machine learning en_US
dc.subject Language modelling en_US
dc.title Water quality information dissemination at real-time in South Africa using language modelling en_US
dc.type Conference Presentation en_US
dc.identifier.apacitation Lourens, R. L., Patra, A., Hassim, L., Sima, F., Moodley, A., & Sharma, P. (2018). Water quality information dissemination at real-time in South Africa using language modelling. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10893 en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation Lourens, Roger L, A Patra, Luqmaan Hassim, Faheem Sima, Avashlin Moodley, and P Sharma. "Water quality information dissemination at real-time in South Africa using language modelling." (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10893 en_ZA
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation Lourens RL, Patra A, Hassim L, Sima F, Moodley A, Sharma P, Water quality information dissemination at real-time in South Africa using language modelling; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10893 . en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Conference Presentation AU - Lourens, Roger L AU - Patra, A AU - Hassim, Luqmaan AU - Sima, Faheem AU - Moodley, Avashlin AU - Sharma, P AB - We present a conversational model to apprise users with limited access to computational resources about water quality and real-time accessibility for a given location. We used natural language understanding through neural embedding driven approaches. This was integrated with a chatbot interface to accept user queries and decide on action output based on entity recognition from such input query and online information from standard databases and governmental and non-governmental resources. We present results of attempts made for some South African use cases, and demonstrate utility for information search and dissemination at a local level. DA - 2018-12 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Water quality KW - Machine learning KW - Language modelling LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2018 T1 - Water quality information dissemination at real-time in South Africa using language modelling TI - Water quality information dissemination at real-time in South Africa using language modelling UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10893 ER - en_ZA


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