COVID-19 Telegram Bot

Telegram Bot which authenticate the source of covid19 related information shared online and also provide snippet information about covid19.

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Inspiration

In the midst of covid-19 pandemic, there have been a sharp rise in deliberate misinformation campaigns on different media, which have occurred in parallel with attempts to hack international organisations at the forefront of the covid-19 response.This crisis Inspired us to curtail so called fake news and provide valid information.

What it does

Telegram Bot which authenticate the source of covid-19 related information shared online and also provide snippet information about covid-19.

  • /start - Will provide detail about the Bot
  • Sharing a link related to covid-19, Bot will help in authenticating the source of information shared
  • Mention of 'covid' in chat will prompt a question and give following options:
    • Symptoms : Bot will share link to WHO website with covid-19 symptoms
    • Country Based :By entering the country name, Bot will provide that country's present stats of covid-19

How we built it

The application is python based Telegram Bot. From Telegram with the help of BotFather we created a new bot and bot logic was implemented using python. In python we used 'python-telegram-bot' library to help with interactive chat. For this project authentication of the source of covid-19 related information is based on locally compiled source list.

Challenges we ran into

For high-performing, resilient, proprietary contextual bot to work it needs AI solution, more specifically a conversational AI.For which we used RASA Framework, but it need more time and research to fully utilize the potential of the framework.To authenticate the source of online information there is no standard international database, so has to use locally compiled online source list.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being able to develop application and successfully implement them exactly the way we wanted to with team collaboration and effort.

Use of Bot after covid-19 crisis

Bot can be extended to fight against any kind of misinformation.Besides, it can provide correct stats of the future crisis not just restricting to covid-19.

What's next for our Bot

  • Machine Learning(ML) and Natural language processing (NLP) to detect fake news.
  • RASA conversational AI Framework for high-performing and seamless chat Bot.
  • Explore option of other chat apps like whatsapp.

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