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A Study on the RPA Interface Method for Hybrid AI Chatbot Implementation

하이브리드 AI 챗봇 구현을 위한 RPA연계 방안 연구

  • Received : 2022.02.28
  • Accepted : 2022.04.19
  • Published : 2023.01.31
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Abstract

Recently, as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prolongs along with the development of artificial intelligence technology, a non-contact society has become commonplace. Many companies are promoting digital transformation and the activation of artificial intelligence introduction to respond to this which leads to dramatic increase of demand for Chatbot. In addition, a Chatbot has reached the point of processing business transactions from responding simple inquiries. However, it is necessary to develop an API to interface with the legacy system and there are many difficulties in connecting. To solve this, it is becoming important to establish a hybrid Chatbot environment through RPA interface. Recently, the combination of RPA and Chatbot is considered an effective tool for handling many business processes. But, there are many difficulties due to the lack of interface cases and the difficulty in finding a method to development them. This study suggests a method for building a hybrid Chatbot which is an interface Chatbot(Conversational UX) and RPA(Task Automation) from the perspective of hyper-automation based on actual development cases and review of literature review is presented, so that the interface method can be understood and develop more easily. Therefore, there are implications for actively using AI Chatbot for digital transformation.

최근에 인공지능 기술발전과 더불어 코로나19 바이러스(COVID-19)가 장기화되면서 비대면 사회가 일상화되었고, 많은 기업들은 이에 대응하기 위한 디지털 트랜스포메이션과 인공지능 도입의 활성화를 촉진시키고 있으며 챗봇의 수요가 급격히 늘어났다. 또한 챗봇은 기존의 단순문의 대응에서 업무 트랜잭션 처리를 하기에 이르렀다. 하지만 기존 시스템과 연계를 위해 API를 개발해야하고 연계 하는데 많은 어려움이 발생하고 있어, 이를 해결하기 위해 RPA연계를 통한 하이브리드 챗봇을 구축하는 것이 점점 중요해지고 있으며, 최근 RPA와 챗봇의 결합이 많은 비즈니스 프로세스를 처리하는 효과적인 도구로 간주되고 있다. 그러나 연계사례 부족과 구축 방법을 찾아보기 힘들어 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존 선행연구 고찰과 하이퍼오토메이션 관점에서 Conversational UX인 챗봇과 Task Automation의 RPA를 연계한 하이브리드 챗봇 구축을 위한 방법을 실제 구현사례를 바탕으로 제시하여, 보다 쉽게 연계방법을 이해하고 구축할 수 있도록 하여 디지털 트랜스포메이션에 적극적으로 AI 챗봇을 활용할 수 있도록 하는데 시사점이 있다.

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