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Natural Language Processing in Action
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Natural Language Processing in Action

by Cole Howard, Hobson Lane, Hannes Hapke
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
17h 29m
English
Manning Publications
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12 Getting chatty (dialog engines)

This chapter covers

  • Understanding four chatbot approaches
  • Finding out what Artificial Intelligence Markup Language is all about
  • Understanding the difference between chatbot pipelines and other NLP pipelines
  • Learning about a hybrid chatbot architecture that combines the best ideas into one
  • Using machine learning to make your chatbot get smarter over time
  • Giving your chatbot agency—enabling it to spontaneously say what’s on its mind

We opened this book with the idea of a dialog engine or chatbot NLP pipeline because we think it’s one of the most important NLP applications of this century. For the first time in history we can speak to a machine in our own language, and we can’t always tell that it isn’t human. ...

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