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     author = {Dubosson, Fabien and Calbimonte, Jean-Paul and Schumacher, Michael},
   keywords = {ChatBot, conversational agents, health support},
      month = jun,
      title = {A Chatbot engine for personalized health support programmes},
  booktitle = {First Workshop on Chatbot held during the International Conference on Web and Social Media 2018},
       year = {2018},
   abstract = {Health support programmes require interactive and responsive technologies in order to acquire information from users and interact with them, offering counsel, support, motivation, and fostering behavioural change. 
This paper introduces a chatbot development engine targeting health programmes in a social environment. 
The engine has been implemented and deployed for a smoking cessation programme in Switzerland, with hundreds of real users. Details of this implementation and their underlying technologies are presented, as well as ongoing and future challenges.}
}