IBM Watson on IBM Cloud provides a set of tools to build a cognitive NLP chatbot. IBM proposes a well-thought process to design a chatbot. Good architecture remains the key to a chatbot's success.
To make a chatbot meet user demands, IBM Watson has many services libraries (speech to text, text to speech, and much more).
The whole process can be customized with one's programs. This makes IBM Cloud an excellent place to start creating chatbots. The TextBlob project offers another set of NLP modules that provide some interesting ways of improving a chatbot.
This chapter starts by setting up an IBM Watson chatbot following IBM's standard procedure and shows how to use IBM Watson to add one's cognitive chatbot functions. A cognitive service in Python will be described to solve a case study. The problem to address is that of a tourist on a...
