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Custom Search Chatbot Roadmap

This document provides a step-by-step roadmap for building a search-based chatbot without using APIs or large language models (LLMs). It outlines key steps including dataset collection, data cleaning, implementing searching algorithms, user flow, and optional interface designs. Additionally, it suggests skills to learn and advanced features to enhance the chatbot's functionality.

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Custom Search Chatbot Roadmap

This document provides a step-by-step roadmap for building a search-based chatbot without using APIs or large language models (LLMs). It outlines key steps including dataset collection, data cleaning, implementing searching algorithms, user flow, and optional interface designs. Additionally, it suggests skills to learn and advanced features to enhance the chatbot's functionality.

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Roadmap: Build Your Own Search-based Chatbot Without Using APIs or LLMs

Step-by-Step Roadmap: Build Your Own Search-based Chatbot

1. Dataset Collection

- Collect your dataset from Kaggle or custom sources (CSV, JSON, TXT).

- The dataset can be in question-answer format, technical documentation, FAQs, etc.

2. Data Cleaning & Preprocessing (Python)

- Use Pandas and NLTK/spaCy for:

- Lowercasing

- Removing punctuation & stopwords

- Lemmatization or stemming

- Combine relevant fields for better matching

3. Searching Algorithm

A. TF-IDF + Cosine Similarity

-> Vectorize user question and dataset texts, find the closest match.

B. BM25 Algorithm (More accurate for text search)

-> Use 'rank_bm25' Python library for scoring.

C. Sentence Embedding (Advanced)

-> Use 'sentence-transformers' to convert questions into dense vectors.

4. User Flow

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User inputs question -> Preprocess -> Convert to vector -> Find closest matching entry -> Return the best

answer

5. Interface (Optional)

- CLI (Python terminal app)

- Web App (Flask + HTML)

- Desktop App (Tkinter/PyQt)

6. Optional Advanced Features

- Add fuzzy matching (fuzzywuzzy)

- Add answer confidence score

- Later train a BERT classifier for improved results

Skills to Learn

- Python Programming (W3Schools, Programiz)

- Pandas & Numpy (Kaggle)

- NLP Basics: NLTK, spaCy (YouTube/Coursera)

- TF-IDF, Cosine Similarity (scikit-learn)

- Flask Web App (Corey Schafer tutorials)

- Sentence Embeddings ('sentence-transformers')

Example Interaction:

User: What are the symptoms of diabetes?

Bot: Common symptoms of diabetes include frequent urination, increased thirst, and fatigue.

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Note:

This is NOT an LLM-based bot. It's a smart retrieval-based chatbot using NLP + Search.

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