LLM based QA chatbot builder: A generative AI-based chatbot builder for question answering
Md. Shahidul Salim, Sk Imran Hossain, Tanim Jalal, Dhiman Kumer Bose, Mohammad Jahid Ibna Basher · SoftwareX · 2024
Large language model (LLM) based interactive chatbots have been gaining popularity as a tool to serve organizational information among people. Building such a tool goes through several development phases i.e. (a) Data collection and preprocessing, (b) LLM fine-tuning, testing, and inference, and (c) Chat interface development. To streamline this development process, in this paper, we present the LLM Question–Answer (QA) builder, a web application, which assembles all the steps and makes it easy for technical and non-technical users to develop the LLM QA chatbot. The system allows the instruction fine-tuning of following LLMs: Zepyhr, Mistral, Llama-3, Phi, Flan-T5, and user provided model for organization-specific information retrieval (IR), which can be further enhanced by Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques. We have added an automatic web crawling based RAG data scrapper. Also, our system contains a human evaluation feature and RAG metrics for assessing model quality.