How To Build a Chatbot

How To Build a Chatbot

About the Book

Why you should read this book

You will learn how to make natural language interfaces in an unconventional way: by writing a grammar you will have your bot ready in about an hour. Not only will this be a quicker way when compared to statistics-based bot, but it will also produce a better result. If you want to build an app with a natural language interface, you don't need tons of data and fancy neural networks: from this book, you will learn the exact amount of linguistics that you need to write your bot.

Why chatbots?

Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Google Now: natural language interfaces are spreading. Machines are understanding us and they are even starting to talk to us. All the big tech companies are investing time and money to build machines that can alleviate users from the pain of graphics interfaces. We as humans are more prone to talk than to push buttons: it's just more natural.

Outline

Part I

Chapter 1 sketches the design process of a bot

Chapter 2 shows how to build a corpus

Chapter 3 introduces Grammatical Framework

Chapter 4 implements the dialogue manager

Chapter 5 implements a database

Chapter 6 puts everything together

Part II

Chapter 7  implements a Telegram bot

Chapter 8  shows how to plot reports

Chapter 9  adds multi-linguality

Chapter 10 shows how to evaluate the bot

Chapter 11 adds voice recognition

Chapter 12 introduces payments

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About the Author

Angelo Basile
Angelo Basile

I am a master student at the University of Groningen: I am getting my second degree in Language & Communication Technology. Before I studied philosophy at the University of Trento. I have previously been employed at Fondazione Bruno Kessler where I worked on part-of-speech tagging for ancient Italian. Last year I co-founded 'Pickmeup': a cool carpooling service run entirely via a Telegram bot. See more at pickmeup.trentino.it

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