GameBot: A Visualization-augmented Chatbot for Sports Game

The major sports leagues, including The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the EPL (the English Premier League), are adopting conversational systems (chatbots) as an innovative outlet to deliver game information and engage fans. However, current sports chatbots only provide scores and game highlight videos, which are often inadequate for statistical data related requests. We present GameBot, an interactive chatbot for sports fans to explore game statistical data. GameBot features (1) the direct answers to user's stats-related questions, and (2) the use of data visualizations as supporting context for sports fans' stats-related questions.