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…
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…
With a pre-trained model your chatbot is able to handle basic interactions, such as greetings. When you venture beyond the basics, you quickly find out that the bot’s responses don’t make much sense. That’s because the NLP model is too generic and the bot won’t recognise specific intents and entities. Similarly, the model lacks rules…
In this part of the series we look at the chatbot architecture and design choices. I keep the explanations short and to the point, so that you can code along. Perhaps, you already have an idea of what to build with Rasa and only need a bit of guidance, or a hint. If you are…
I have long wanted to build a multilingual chatbot. I felt conversation bots in language learning apps or online assistants could do a much better job. With close to zero knowledge about machine learning and NLP in particular, I was looking for a tool that would provide guidance. Yet, I wanted to stay in control…