Natural Language Processing for Tamil
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The document discusses the importance of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the development of chatbots, particularly in the Tamil language, highlighting various technologies and platforms like Microsoft's bot framework and Facebook Messenger. It emphasizes the rise of bots as essential tools for automated conversation in response to app fatigue, with AI and NLP enhancing their capabilities. Overall, it positions bots as the new applications and messaging apps as the preferred user interface.
Natural Language Processing for Tamil
- 1. WHY INDUSTRY CARES ABOUT NLP FOR TAMIL? Chennai, 7th May 2016
- 2. WHAT’S OUT THERE • Apple’s Siri • Microsoft Cortona • Amazon’s Echo • BOTS
- 3. WHAT ARE BOTS • A bot is a software application that runs automated tasks(scripts) over the internet. • a chatbot is designed to work on conversation with people and existing on chat app or social network. • 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.
- 4. WHY BOTS, WHY NOW? • App fatigue • Conversation as the interface • The raise of artificial intelligence
- 5. MESSENGER USAGE IN APR ‘16
- 6. TECHNOLOGIES • Microsoft’s BOT Framework • Facebook Messenger BOT • Amazon Alexa Skills
- 7. MICROSOFT BOT FRAMEWORK • Bot Framework is a Microsoft-operated service and an SDK. • Bot Framework is one of many tools Microsoft offers for building a complete bot. • Others include: LUIS, Speech APIs, Azure, more • Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
- 9. FACEBOOK - wat.ai • wat.ai supports Tamil, Hindi & Bengali
- 13. SUMMARY • Bots are the new apps • Conversations are the new UI • AI with NLP is the protocol • Messaging apps are the new browser
Editor's Notes
- #8: Tacobot for slack