Does Chatbot interest you? Build a chatbot in minutes!

The hands-on workshop focuses on understanding what is natural language processing, emerging trends and applications of NLP in machine learning and writing a simple python program to design/create a chatbot from scratch using nltk package and jupyter notebook. This simple chatbot will take command line text inputs/queries and respond intelligently. At the end of the session, you will be able to build your own NLP machine learning models.

Please watch our YouTube Channel for the livestream on May 16. We will be answering questions you might have in real-time. Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel so you get notified when the livestream begins.

Pre-requisites:
Basic programming knowledge (Java, Python or any other).
Hands-On knowledge of python scikit library and NLTK is assumed. However, if you are new to NLP, you can still follow the live stream and then refer back to resources.

Software required (Please install them before watching our livestream):
Python 3.7 (suggested from Anaconda https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/)
Jupyter Notebook or any other IDE to run python programs (Jupyter: https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html)

Topics covered:
What is NLP
NLP Applications
What’s a chatbot
Reading in the data (To build chatbot knowledge)
Pre-processing the raw text
Building the chatbot Model (keyword matching)
Defining the response function
Testing the chatbot

Date
 2019-05-16 19:30-20:30

Location
 Please watch the live stream on our YouTube channel