Re:Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot
by adamra on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:22AM
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I'm curious if some of those platforms allow to write custom code for processing of the raw message. Either to embed the code directly on their server or to expose a custom webhook.
For instance, if I were to write such a diagnostic chatbot as described in the article but would prefer to use a service such as those to take care of the integrations with various platforms, message queueing, tracking basic stats etc.
There are hosted services like API.ai, wit.ai and Microsoft LUIS. Init.ai has NLP built into their bot building platform. Rasa NLU is an open source NLP project that is very interesting.