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These are the traditional talk sessions scheduled during the first day of conference. They will be conducted on Day 2 of Conference, Sunday, 8th Oct. The length of these tracks are 45 minutes.

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These are short length talks that will be conducted on Day 2 of Conference, Sunday, 8th Oct. The time limit is 5 minutes. But we can extend it depending on number of talks submitted.

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General Talks: Build a chatbot from scratch using open-source tools

Submitted Aug 26, 2017

Technical level: Intermediate

This talk will show you how you could use open-source tools to build a chatbot without handing your data over to third parties (Facebook/Microsoft/Google,etc.)

You will learn:

how a chatbot works behind the scene
how to transfer knowledge to a chatbot
how to build a production-ready bot which you would own completely
how to use Socket.IO to allow real-time communication with your chatbot.

Outline #

Introduction: motivations for building your bot in-house
Chatbot architecture.
Understanding the components of chatbot -
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
  - Intent Classification
  - Entity Extraction
- contextual dialogue management using Finite State Machines (FSM)
- Response Generation
- Knowledge Base
How to use Open Source Tools to build your own chatbot:
- Rasa.AI (having configurable backends like spacy/sklearn/mitie) - to build intent & entity extraction.
- Transitions - to build a context manager using FSMs.
- ChatterBot - to generate automated response based on historical conversation.
- Socket.IO - to build a real-time communication system.
Demo

Requirements #

Basic knowledge of NLP and Machine Learning.
Basic understanding of Finite State Machines.
Familiarity with Python.

Speaker bio #

Saikat Kumar Dey - I am a Data Scientist at Endurance International Group. I have been working on building a conversational assistant for Customer Support in my company. I have worked on customer segmentation & retention efforts in the past.

Parth Savjani - Associate Data Scientist at Endurance International Group India
More than 3 years of experience working with Data related field ranging from Data-warehouse to predictive modelling on transaction data, postgraduate from IIIT Bangalore with Data Science major.