Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML)
Two concepts, one mission: to make machines understand humans. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) are all the rage right...
What is Sentiment Analysis and How Does it Work?
Sentiment Analysis is a procedure used to determine if a chunk of text is positive, negative or neutral. In text analytics, natural language...
Decompounding German, Korean and More: a ‘Gesamt + Kunst + Werk’
It’s a true story that Germans love their long words. However, this fact may not be so loved for text processing procedures. The lack of NLP...
Speed Up Your Bot Training with Artificial Data
If you want your chatbot to recognize a specific intent, you need to provide it with a large number of sentences that express that intent. That...
Main Challenges for Word Embeddings: Part II
The use of word embeddings has become the standard approach for dealing with text input in AI models. While an extensive research has been carried...
Main Challenges for Word Embeddings: Part I
In recent years, word embeddings have become the de facto input layer for virtually all AI-based NLP tasks. While they have undoubtedly allowed...
Siri Speaking Arabic: What Is Failing?
Almost three years after Apple launched its well-known voice assistant Siri for the Arabic language, there is still room for further improvement....
Artificial training data: how to speed up your bot training
Bots built upon machine learning need long training processes to have the ability to hold a meaningful conversations with real people. Training data...
Improving Rasa’s results by 30% with artificial training data: Part II
Increasing bot accuracy has never been so easy. How? Generating artificial training data, not manually, but using auto-generated query...
Improving Rasa’s results with artificial training data. Part I
The well-known Rasa chatbot-building platform is gaining weight day after day. But, in all platforms, chatbots are as good as their training...
6 keys to building a successful human-like chatbot
Talking, expressing ourselves through words, using speech to exchange information is something that comes natural to humans. Then why don’t we just...
Lemmatization for information retrieval
In the last years, the size of available data and information collections is growing exponentially, and this makes it necessary to adapt the tools...