The Design and Analysis of a Storytelling Chatbot with Natural Language Processing Techniques for Enhancing EFL Reading

This study explored the applications of natural language processing techniques on the analysis of storybook to design the storytelling chatbots. Two natural language processing techniques, co-reference and dependency parsing techniques, were applied to process the text of 157 stories books as a means to implement in the invite-narration, positive recognition, follow-up strategies when the chatbot retells the story with the students. The results of the study found that 19 (42%) students demonstrated full narratives which can re-tell the overall story in the storybook, while 22 (49%) students could only retell a simplified story. Affordances and limitations of the use of the two techniques in developing chatbots for reading are discussed.