15 Natural Language Processing Libraries Worth a Try
With the rise of machine learning, NLP has become accessible to a wider developer community. This post gives an overview of 15 libraries worth a try in 2020.
4 Useful Ways to Automate Text Summarization
Data is gold and time is of essence. Would’t it be great to get a summary of an elaborate article, latest news or a complicated piece of a legal text? Well, we aren’t quite there yet. Algorithms that generate concise information-rich summaries that make sense and are pleasant to read remain a tough challenge. Nevertheless,…
Build a Cool Face Detection App in Your Browser
In my previous post I gave an overview of facial recognition, its advantages and ethical considerations. Today I want to show you how to put this technology in practice. We are going to build a web application that detects your face and does some basic feature analysis. Let’s start with a demo. Source code: https://bit.ly/3g39PZY…
First Steps with Rasa for Busy Developers
This post will help you get started with Rasa, an open source framework for building contextual virtual assistants. I take an opinionated stand point, sharing what I found worked best in terms of cutting on time and effort. Among other things, I’ll show you how to work around some of the limitations and use this…
Build a Multilingual Chatbot with Rasa and Heroku – Deployment Considerations
You put all the effort into writing your own chatbot with Rasa. You spent hours or even days on training your model and testing. Now you want to make it publicly accessible and keep the cost down. Where shall I run the action server? What if my bot is multilingual and I need to spin…
COVID-19: Rasa Bot Template
This is a quick announcement for those of you who work with or contribute to Rasa. I have created a template for my Test Locations bot. Clone the repo and make it your own. I plan to extend the API with more countries and a more fine grained search. Get in touch if you want…