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WHY INDUSTRY CARES
ABOUT NLP FOR TAMIL?
Chennai, 7th May 2016
WHAT’S OUT THERE
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Apple’s Siri
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Microsoft Cortona
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Amazon’s Echo
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BOTS
WHAT ARE BOTS
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A bot is a software application that runs automated
tasks(scripts) over the internet.
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a chatbot is designed to work on conversation with
people and existing on chat app or social network.
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usually AI (NLP) is embedded in a chatbot so the
chatbot can understand the context and perform
much more complicated tasks than what a bot does.
WHY BOTS, WHY NOW?
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App fatigue
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Conversation as the interface
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The raise of artificial intelligence
MESSENGER USAGE IN APR
‘16
TECHNOLOGIES
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Microsoft’s BOT Framework
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Facebook Messenger BOT
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Amazon Alexa Skills
MICROSOFT BOT FRAMEWORK
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Bot Framework is a
Microsoft-operated service
and an SDK.
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Bot Framework is one of
many tools Microsoft offers
for building a complete bot.
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Others include: LUIS,
Speech APIs, Azure, more
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Language Understanding
Intelligent Service (LUIS)
MICROSOFT BOT CONNECTOR
FACEBOOK - wat.ai
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wat.ai supports Tamil, Hindi & Bengali
SUMMARY
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Bots are the new apps
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Conversations are the new UI
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AI with NLP is the protocol
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Messaging apps are the new browser