Smart Ubiquitous Chatbot for COVID-19 Assistance with Deep Learning Sentiment Analysis Model During and After Quarantine
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Smart Ubiquitous Chatbot for COVID-19 Assistance with Deep learning Sentiment Analysis Model during and after quarantine Nourchène Ouerhani ( [email protected] ) University of Manouba, National School of Computer Sciences, RIADI Laboratory, 2010, Manouba, Tunisia Ahmed Maalel University of Manouba, National School of Computer Sciences, RIADI Laboratory, 2010, Manouba, Tunisia Henda Ben Ghézala University of Manouba, National School of Computer Sciences, RIADI Laboratory, 2010, Manouba, Tunisia Soulaymen Chouri Vialytics Lautenschlagerstr Research Article Keywords: Chatbot, COVID-19, Natural Language Processing, Deep learning, Mental Health, Ubiquity Posted Date: June 25th, 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-33343/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Noname manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Smart Ubiquitous Chatbot for COVID-19 Assistance with Deep learning Sentiment Analysis Model during and after quarantine Nourch`ene Ouerhani · Ahmed Maalel · Henda Ben Gh´ezela · Soulaymen Chouri Received: date / Accepted: date Abstract The huge number of deaths caused by the posed method is a ubiquitous healthcare service that is novel pandemic COVID-19, which can affect anyone presented by its four interdependent modules: Informa- of any sex, age and socio-demographic status in the tion Understanding Module (IUM) in which the NLP is world, presents a serious threat for humanity and so- done, Data Collector Module (DCM) that collect user’s ciety. At this point, there are two types of citizens, non-confidential information to be used later by the Ac- those oblivious of this contagious disaster’s danger that tion Generator Module (AGM) that generates the chat- could be one of the causes of its spread, and those who bots answers which are managed through its three sub- show erratic or even turbulent behavior since fear and modules. And finally the Depression Detector Model anxiety invades our surroundings because of confine- (DDM) that detects anxiety in the text input through ment and panic of being affected. In this paper we a deep leaning sentiment analysis model to help AGM aim at developing a smart ubiquitous chatbot, called make the decision to deliver a reassurance message if a COVID-Chatbot, for COVID-19 assistance during and bad behavior is distinguished. after quarantine that communicates with a citizen to Keywords Chatbot · COVID-19 · Natural Language increase his/her consciousness towards the real danger Processing · Deep learning · Mental Health · Ubiquity of this outbreak. Furthermore, COVID-Chatbot is able to recognize and manage stress, during and after lock- down and quarantine period, using natural language 1 Introduction processing (NLP). The robust messages delivered from COVID-Chatbot and its way of communication could COVID-19 is the abbreviated name for novel coron- possibly help to slow the COVID-19 spread. The pro- avirus disease 2019, which is a respiratory illness that spreads from person to person 1. Different from both N. Ouerhani MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, COVID-19 is the seventh University of Manouba, National School of Computer Sci- member of coronaviruses family that infects humans ences, RIADI Laboratory, 2010, Manouba, Tunisia E-mail: nourchne [email protected] [12,4]. It was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan City in China . Up to April 2020, more than 144,000 A. Maalel University of Manouba, National School of Computer Sci- people have died globally from the COVID-19, while ences, RIADI Laboratory, 2010, Manouba, Tunisia more than 2 millions infections have been confirmed in University of Sousse, Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and dozens of countries, according to the World Health Or- Technology, 4003, Sousse, Tunisia ganization, as a result the COVID-19 is now declared a E-mail: [email protected] pandemic 2. H. Ben Gh´ezela Upon observing the proliferation of the outbreak, University of Manouba, National School of Computer Sci- ences, RIADI Laboratory, 2010, Manouba, Tunisia some countries were hit earlier than others, but cur- E-mail: [email protected] rently has fewer cases than the recently hit countries. S. Chouri 1 https://www.cdc.gov/ Vialytics Lautenschlagerstr, 16 70173 Stuttgart, Germany E- 2 https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel- mail: [email protected] coronavirus-2019 2 Nourch`ene Ouerhani et al. According to the World Health Organization’s head of On the other hand, [5] developed an artificial in- emergencies, these dramatic differences show that the telligence based automated thoracic CT image analy- behavior of governments in response to this epidemic sis tools for detection, quantification, and tracking of matters 3, but most importantly, citizens’ response too. COVID-19 positive patients, while [10] presented an In fact, while the number of people who are being artificial intelligence framework that reads the smart- treated for COVID-19 is increasing by the day, some phone sensors’ signal measurement to predict the sever- citizens are not aware of the real threat of this outbreak ity of the pneumonia and the result of the COVID-19. which explains its quickly spread all over the world, It is designed for the experts (doctor or radiologists). however others, panicked and desperate, fell headlong Chatbots prove their potential to surmount obsta- into the trap of this grim and even worse committing cles such as geographical problems that could be effec- suicide [2]. tive in our confinement period to curb in-person medi- Given the previously outlined circumstances, a smart cal consultations. Meanwhile, communication becomes ubiquitous chatbot is proposed in this paper in order a necessity to convince and reassure people of the cur- to assist ordinary citizens during and after the quar- rent plight, that’s why, a Japanese based Bespoke com- antine period to help them overcome such a situation. pany took advantage of artificial intelligence to launch The proposed method is a chatbot based ubiquitous [37] an online chatbot called Bebot that provides up-to-date healthcare service that offers healthcare to anyone, any- information of the COVID-19 and preventative actions time, and anywhere. with a possibility to check symptom [3]. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows: Some interesting chatbots that were previously de- First, we enumerates some solutions based on artificial veloped for the healthcare domain are also worth men- intelligence proposed to fight COVID-19, in 2. Next, we tioning such as, SPeCECA [11] which is a smart perva- explain our approach through a global architecture and sive chatbot for emergency case assistance and it is des- the articulation between the different modules of our ignated to interact with ordinary citizens to help them Chatbot 3. Then, we evaluate our work by a test case overcome an emergency situation by suggesting the ac- in 4. And finally, the paper ends with a conclusion and curate first aid actions to do. Additionally, Mandy [18] an outlook on some perspectives and future works for is a chatbot that communicates with normal people interesting research directions 5. using natural language in order to provide an online healthcare suggestions. In [21], a chatbot is designed to mimic human interaction in a medical case. Its objec- 2 Related Works tive is to help ordinary people choose the most appro- priate way to prevent a disease. Finally in [14], a mobile Some citizens from several nations express their inter- chatbot is developed for health care service. This chat- est to the diagnosis, prediction and heal of the viral bot is able to collect and detect user’s daily health data, outbreak so that computer science researches has cho- in order to diagnose chronic diseases and give preven- sen to adopt artificial intelligence into the COVID-19 tive information and fast treatment to accidents that diagnosis to avail of its several advantages. may occur in everyday life. The authors of [7], developed an artificial intelli- The second part of our research is the impact of vir- gence method to to diagnose and predict COVID-19. tual assistants to overcome stressful situations. Besides, This method is designated for the clinical use, so that a messenger chatbot was built to recognize and man- ordinary citizens could not profit from it. age emotional stress through predefined set of questions Also [9] proposed to use artificial intelligence and [16]. Not far from this spirit, [19] presents chatbot for mobile-phone simultaneously in order to improve pos- mental health counselling also using a set of questions to sible case identifications of COVID-19 in populations assess a user’s depression without a deep learning sen- under quarantine . timent analysis. However, other works [17,15,20,29,28] More over in [8], artificial intelligence is coupled have benefited from the power of deep learning some- with an universal data sharing standards to manage times to adjust the sentiment of the chatbot response, and monitor urban health in smart cities, also it re- and sometimes to detect depression in text sequences. vealed the urgent need of the standardization of proto- Another solution was developed as virtual reality ap- cols for enhanced smart city communication to provide plication to support individuals in a stressful situation more possible cooperation in the case of disasters such via communication with imaginary persons [35]. as the recent novel pathogen COVID-19. Table 1 shows a comparative analysis of some re- 3 https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-