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Conversational AI with Rasa

You're reading from Conversational AI with Rasa Build, test, and deploy AI-powered, enterprise-grade virtual assistants and chatbots

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077057

Length 264 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Rasa

Concepts

Chatbots

Authors (2):

Xiaoquan Kong

Guan Wang

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Rasa Framework

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Chatbots and the Rasa Framework FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Natural Language Understanding in Rasa

4. Chapter 3: Rasa Core

5. Section 2: Rasa in Action

6. Chapter 4: Handling Business Logic

7. Chapter 5: Working with Response Selector to Handle Chitchat and FAQs

8. Chapter 6: Knowledge Base Actions to Handle Question Answering

9. Chapter 7: Entity Roles and Groups for Complex Named Entity Recognition

10. Chapter 8: Working Principles and Customization of Rasa

11. Section 3: Best Practices

12. Chapter 9: Testing and Production Deployment

13. Chapter 10: Conversation-Driven Development and Interactive Learning

14. Chapter 11: Debugging, Optimization, and Community Ecosystem

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

Rasa is a Python-based framework. To install it, you need a Python developer environment, which can be downloaded from https://python.org/downloads/. At the time of writing this chapter, Rasa only supports Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8, so please be careful to choose the correct Python version when you set up the developing environment.

You can find all the code for this chapter in the ch01 directory of the GitHub repository, at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Conversational-AI-with-RASA.

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Authors (2)

Kong

Kong

Xiaoquan is a machine learning expert specializing in NLP applications. He has extensive experience in leading teams to build NLP platforms in several Fortune Global 500 companies. He is a Google developer expert in Machine Learning and has been actively involved in contributions to TensorFlow for many years. He also has actively contributed to the development of the Rasa framework since the early stage and became a Rasa Superhero in 2018. He manages the Rasa Chinese community and has also participated in the Chinese localization of TensorFlow documents as a technical reviewer.

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Wang

Wang

Wallace Wang has written dozens of computer books over the years, including Microsoft Office for Dummies and Beginning Programming for Dummies, along with Macintosh and the iPhone books such as macOS Programming for Absolute Beginners, Beginning iPhone Development with Swift 5, Pro iPhone Development with Swift 5, and Beginning ARKit for iPhone and iPad. When he's not helping people discover the fascinating world of programming, he performs stand-up comedy and appears on two radio shows on KNSJ in San Diego called Notes From the Underground and Laugh-In Your Face Radio. In his free time, Wallace also writes a screenwriting blog called The 15 Minute Movie Method and a blog about the latest cat news on the Internet called Cat Daily News.

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