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EPOQAS: Development of an Event Program Organizer with a Question Answering System

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With the increase in the various types of communication channels, communicating via online chatting has become common and is now considered an effective means of communication during real-time meetings. Various communication media, for example, traditional tools (such as Facebook Messengers, Twitter, Google Docs) or novel technologies (such as Slido and Miro), can be used as side channels; however, all these media remain separated from the main meeting. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an event program organizer containing a simple chatting function that can be used for questions and answers; this system has been named Event Program Organizer with a Question Answering System (EPOQAS). The system can be easily operated, and it has unique functions that enable the meeting participants to communicate with one another. Also, the source code of the system is published as an open-source software. Hence, implementing an instance of this system in research meetings will accelerate scientific discussions.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to like to thank all the committee members of the sig-cyberworld, IEICE, for the fruitful discussion on this system proposal.

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  1. Faculty of Global Informatics, Chuo University, 1-18 Ichigaya-tamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8478, Japan

    Jun Iio

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Hsing-Chung Chen

  3. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

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Iio, J. (2022). EPOQAS: Development of an Event Program Organizer with a Question Answering System. In: Barolli, L., Chen, HC., Enokido, T. (eds) Advances in Networked-Based Information Systems. NBiS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84913-9_34

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