IDEAS SoCal AI & Data Science Conference 2018

Understanding Chatbots and Building Chatbot using Rasa Tech Stack
Brief Description: Chatbots are one of the most emerging topic in the space of Artificial Intelligence. We have already started seeing a lot of chat-bots around us wherein we can literally do conversation with those virtual assistants without even realizing its a bot not a real human.
All the big giants of information technology are coming up with their own frameworks to build chat-bots. Industry have already started putting a lot of focus towards building Machine Learning/Deep Learning based chatbots. Considering it is one of the most important and hot topic across industry, this session is going to explain how Natural Language Processing can be used to develop state of the art chat bots or virtual assistant.
This session will explain all the nuts and bolts of a chatbot, explaining how Natural Language Understanding(NLU) plays a vital role in developing a chatbot. And how can we create our own NLU system using NLP or Text Analytics. We will also showcase a chatbot demo that can search restaurants given any natural language query by the user. Also we will help audience to learn building a chatbot using one of the open source platform. And finally how we can integrate our chatbot with one of public channels such as Facebook, Skype or Slack.