Improving Government Helpdesk Service With an AI-Powered Chatbot Built on the Rasa Framework

Helpdesk services are an important component in supporting Information Technology (IT) services. The helpdesk operates as the initial interface for managing and resolving concerns. Helpdesk helps user to get solutions when facing problems while using an IT service. This research focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots on the performance of the initial response of government helpdesk services. The chatbot is designed to improve service performance by quickly identifying and classifying reported issues and automatically responding to messages, enabling faster responses. The research proposed a new System Design of a helpdesk system with an AI-based chatbot. The data used comes from Telegram group chat logs, exported in JSON format. We find that the Rasa NLU model with DIET Classifier successfully achieved an accuracy rate of 0.825 in classifying intents, with the precision value of 0.838, recall of 0.829, and F1 score of 0.821 using a Rasa model with cross-validation, where folds is 5 in evaluation. And initial response time was highly improved after using chatbot artificial intelligence from more than 3 hours on the telegram group helpdesk based to an average of 2.15 seconds. These research results suggest AI-Chatbot-based ability to assist the helpdesk team in handling user queries and reports, and improving initial time response.