Building Chatbots with Python: Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

by Sumit Raj

Build your own chatbot using Python and open source tools. This book begins with an introduction to chatbots where you will gain vital information on their architecture. You will then dive straight into Natural Language Processing with the natural language processing library (spaCy) for building a custom language processing platform for your chatbot. With this foundation, you will take a look at different Natural Language Processing techniques so that you can choose the right one for you. The next stage is to learn to build a chatbot using the DialogFlow 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 learn to predict conditions for your bot and develop a conversational agent as a web application. Finally you will deploy your chatbot on your own server in cloud using Heroku.  What You Will Learn 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.If you're a programmer, non-programmer or an entrepreneur, this book is guaranteed to help you build in-house chatbots end-to-end.

Genres: Linguistics, Programming

257 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 12, 2018

Reviews

[Frank Palardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only took a few days to read. You'd need to know Python and machine learning already.

[Damipe Tiwo · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was amazing book with well documented procedures and step by step guide to building a chat bot with python i surfed the web for 3 week 12 hr/day looking for a well documented guide to building chatbot with python and nothing online is this good.