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Natural Language Processing with Python and spaCy
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Natural Language Processing with Python and spaCy

by Yuli Vasiliev
April 2020
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
216 pages
5h 23m
English
No Starch Press
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8INTENT RECOGNITION

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A chatbot should be smart enough to understand a user’s needs. For example, a conversational chatbot must recognize a user’s intent to properly sustain a conversation with the user, and a food-ordering chatbot needs to understand a customer’s intent to take an order. Although the task of intent recognition was touched on in previous chapters, this chapter discusses it in more depth.

You’ll start by recognizing a user’s intent by extracting the transitive verb and direct object of an utterance. Then you’ll explore how to derive a user’s intent from a sequence of sentences, recognize synonyms for different possible intents, and ...

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ISBN: 9781098122652