Chapter 11: Using Chatbots for Querying Documents

Imagine if you could have a two-way conversation with the text data in your documents. Let's suppose you subscribe to a number of journals that send you research articles on technology trends. These articles may cover multiple industries and technologies, but you are interested in insights about a specific industry and technology. Traditionally, you would have a team of people combing through these documents to interpret, understand, and recommend the direction you need to take. What if you could get all the data and answers you need just by flipping open your phone and talking to a chatbot that gives you the answers from your document corpus? Wouldn't that be awesome? That's the power of combining natural language processing (NLP) technology with chatbots. You can literally talk to your documents, and get a response too.

In the previous chapter, we discussed how businesses were relying on technology to help them expand...