Bandolo

Bandolo is an interactive data collection tool. Primarily used to collect data from humans by “chatting” with them. The bot collects data by asking questions determined by a schema which is used to cohorently shape data from different sources and permit Bandolo to be used for any kind of data collection.

Example Question Schema

Question {
     source: [__words__, __setences__, __paragraghs__],
     source_fields: ['meaning', 'example', 'alternative'],
}

The above schema describes the kinds of questions that would be generated from data passed as a collection from any data source via the source key and the data/information that we seek to collect via the source_fields key which accepts an array.

For the example schema shown above we could have a pratical scenario such as;

question_generator = {
    source: ['wahala', 'paddiman', 'hafa', 'where you deh?'],
    source_fields: ['meaning', 'use', 'example', 'alternative']
}

The question generator above would generate question such as :

1. What is the meaning of paddiman?
2. Can you make a statement using hafa?
3. What is alternative way of saying where you deh?
4. What is a synonym for wahala?

• In the first case the meaning source field is using to generate the question for a noun paddiman could equally have been for wahala.

• In the second case a question is generated using the use source field which could be used to generateda question asking for an example or they “use”/application of something. For example what is the use of .... This bring to mind the notion of keywords which we could introduce into the source fields.

• In the third and fourth case questions are generated using alternative which could mean alternative phrasing for a setence (case 3) or synonym for a word (case 4).

Difficulties rising from manually using the schema above to generate questions hint that it would be neccesary to language-annotate data passed in to the source. Such language annotation could designate each member of the source collection as a noun,verb, sentence, question or any other member type that may be designated.

Another hint is that, it may be neccesary to to use keywords in the source fields, for example use and using don’t really sound like exact data people want to capture they sound more like keywords that can generate questions for uses and examples like above.