Enhancing Astronomical Understanding Using an NLP-Based Interactive Chatbot

The cosmos offers a stunning variety of celestial wonders, but delving into astronomy is challenging due to complex textbooks, confusing websites, and a lack of user-friendly tools for aspiring astronomers. This paper presents an interactive chatbot that makes use of advances in natural language processing (NLP), namely the T5 transformer model, to improve accessibility and expedite astronomical investigation. Inspired by the difficulties encountered by would-be astronomers, the initiative seeks to offer an easy-to-use platform for users. Establishing a single hub for effective information retrieval and handling technological complexity are important priorities. The chatbot turns into a vital resource that lowers obstacles in the way of astronomy research. The developed chatbot is publicly available on Github for anyone to use. The input analysis and strong usability are seamlessly integrated, guaranteeing ongoing adaptability and flexibility to meet the needs of the user. The results demonstrate that the developed chatbot is relevant and high-performing.