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Natural Language Processing with Python Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Natural Language Processing with Python Quick Start Guide Going from a Python developer to an effective Natural Language Processing Engineer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130386
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nirant Kasliwal Nirant Kasliwal
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Building your Own Chatbot

Chatbots, better referred to as conversation software, are amazing tools for a lot of businesses. They help businesses serve their client's server 24/7 without increasing effort, with consistent quality, and the built-in option to defer to a human when bots are not enough.

They are a great example of where technology and AI has come together to improve the impact of human effort.

They range from voice-based solutions such as Alexa, to text-based Intercom chat boxes, to menu-based navigation in Uber.

A common misconception is that building chatbots needs large teams and a lot of machine learning expertise, though this is true if you are trying to build a generic chatbot platform like Microsoft or Facebook (or even Luis, Wit.ai, and so on).

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Why build a chatbot?
  • Figuring out the right user intent...
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