{"id":40802213103,"date":"2017-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/chatbot-challenge-winners-selected-saturday-february-4\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:26:26","slug":"chatbot-challenge-winners-selected-saturday-february-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/chatbot-challenge-winners-selected-saturday-february-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatbot Challenge Winners Selected Saturday, February 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monmouth University and RightAnswers will hold a demonstration and awards ceremony for its customer service chatbot challenge on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 from 9:30 a.m. until noon in Pozycki Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The chatbot development competition is comprised of Monmouth University business and computer science students. Their task has been to develop software that delivers automated customer service support through messaging platforms.<\/p>\n<p>At the presentation and awards reception, the three finalist teams will present chatbots that: help consumers find recipes based on specific nutritional and health needs; help students and parents with university admissions questions; or provide outdoorsmen with guidance on camping questions and safety measures.<\/p>\n<p>A key component of the competition has been mentoring of the students by the RightAnswers management team on business analysis, technical implementation and presentation skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/chatbot-challenge-presentation-and-awards-reception-tickets-31512045376\" title=\"Register for the free event\" target=\"_blank\">Register for the free event<\/a>, which will include breakfast, team presentations and demos of the chatbots, and announcement of the winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monmouth University and RightAnswers will hold a demonstration and awards ceremony for its customer service chatbot challenge on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 from 9:30 a.m. until noon in Pozycki Hall. The chatbot development competition is comprised of Monmouth University business and computer science students. Their task has been to develop software that delivers automated customer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,218,215,319],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[11,8],"school":[5,68],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802213103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-excellence","category-accomplished-alumni","category-experiential-education","category-mu-in-the-news","mediacontact-mark-blackmon-director-news-public-affairs","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","school-leon-hess-business-school","school-school-of-science"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802213103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802213103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802213103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802228475,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802213103\/revisions\/40802228475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802213103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802213103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802213103"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802213103"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802213103"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802213103"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802213103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}