Overview
- Covers different approaches to chatbot development
- Includes key points on chatbot integration and deployment
- Employs machine learning to configure your chatbots
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About this book
The next stage is to learn to build a chatbot using the API.ai platform and define its intents and entities. During this example, you will learn to enable communication with your bot and also take a look at key points of its integration and deployment.
The final chapter of Building Chatbots with Python teaches you how to build, train, and deploy your very own chatbot. Using open source libraries and machine learning techniques you will learnto predict conditions for your bot and develop a conversational agent as a web application. Finally you will deploy your chatbot on your own server with AWS.
What You Will Learn
- Gain the basics of natural language processing using Python
- Collect data and train your data for the chatbot
- Build your chatbot from scratch as a web app
- Integrate your chatbots with Facebook, Slack, and Telegram
- Deploy chatbots on your own server
Who This Book Is For
Intermediate Python developers who have no idea about chatbots. Developers with basic Python programming knowledge can also take advantage of the book.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sumit Raj, is a techie at heart, who loves coding and building applications. He is a Python expert with a keen interest in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. He believes in the idea of writing code which directly impacts revenue of the company.
Sumit has worked in multiple domains like Personal Finance Management, Real-Estate, E-commerce, Revenue Analytics to build multiple scalable applications. He has helped various early age startups with their initial design & architecture of the product which got funded later by investors and governments. He comes with a good experience of cutting-edge technologies used in high-volume internet/enterprise applications for scalability, performance tuning & optimization and cost-reduction.
He has been mentoring students/developers on Python programming all across the globe. He has mentored over 1000 students and professionals using various online and offline platforms & channels on Programming Languages, Data Science & for career counselling. Sumit likes to be a part of technical meetups, conferences and workshops. He never likes to miss a chance to attend hackathons. His love for building applications and problem solving has won him multiple awards and accolades. He is regularly invited speak at premier educational institutes of India. He is also a speaker at PyLadies meetup group, ladies who code in Python which is led by one of the former director of PSF(Python Software Foundation).
In his free time, he likes to write on his blog and answer questions on Computer Programming, Chatbots, Python/Django, Career Advice & Web Development on Quora having over 1 million views together. Feel free for A2A on his Quora profile.
Currently, he is working as Senior Solutions Architect at GeoSpark R&D, Bangalore, India building a developer platform for location tracking. You can get to know more about him from his website.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Chatbots with Python
Book Subtitle: Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Authors: Sumit Raj
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4096-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Sumit Raj 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4095-3Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4096-0Published: 12 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 192
Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations
Topics: Python, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Programming Techniques