RASA NLU gives developers an open source solution for natural language processing

“There are many successful use cases of NLP being used to optimize workflows, and one of them is to analyze social media to identify trends or brand engagement. Another successful case is the chatbots that improve customer service by automating the process of answering frequently asked questions, unblocking employees to focus on tasks that require human interaction,” Bernardo said. “Computer systems would need to be able to parse and interpret the many ways people ask questions about data, including domain-specific terms (e.g., the medical industry). Developing robust and reliable tools that can support BI organizations to analyze and glean insights while maintaining security continue to be issues that the field needs to improve upon further,” added Tableau’s Setlur.

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“Traditional BI should be complemented by and not replaced with new NLP approaches for the next few years. The technology is maturing quickly, but core business-driven decisions should rely on tried-and-true BI approaches until confidence is established with new approaches,” added Behzadi. Predictive text generation and autocompletion have become ubiquitous, from our phones to document and email writing.

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As with other technology areas, the field stands to change even more dramatically as large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT come online. Systems such as Domo, Google Looker, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Insight Advisor Chat, Tableau, SiSense Fusion and ThoughtSpot Everywhere have seen NLP updates. These have made data consumption considerably more convenient as business users retrieve data through natural language queries. Companies large and small are building on top of RASA, in-part because it’s customizable by nature. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) are growing in importance. Smart assistants are continuing to find roles in our homes and offices, translation services are creating a more global world, and the technologies are enabling all manner of productivity tools.

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Our sister community, Reworked, gathers the world’s leading employee experience and digital workplace professionals. And our newest community, VKTR, is home for AI practitioners and forward thinking leaders focused on the business of enterprise AI. For over two decades CMSWire, produced by Simpler Media Group, has been the world’s leading community of digital customer experience professionals. The use of AI-based Interactive voice response (IVR) systems, NLP, and NLU enable customers to solve problems using their own words. Today’s IVR systems are vastly different from the clunky, “if you want to know our hours of operation, press 1” systems of yesterday.

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• For over two decades CMSWire, produced by Simpler Media Group, has been the world’s leading community of digital customer experience professionals.
• “NLP-driven analytical experiences have democratized how people analyze data and glean insights — without using a sophisticated analytics tool or crafting complex data queries,” added Setlur.
• LASTMILE’s team is based in Berlin, Germany but Weidauer and his co-founder Alan Nichol hope their project can bolster the entire bot ecosystem.
• The more data that goes into the algorithmic model, the more the model is able to learn about the scenario, and over time, the predictions course correct automatically and become more and more accurate.
• To date, LASTMILE has raised seed capital from Techstars and a few angels.
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For folks who don’t spend a lot of time with engineers, APIs allow developers to rapidly create products without having to reinvent the wheel. Natural language processing, i.e converting human language into something a computer can understand, is pretty difficult but incredibly necessary for creating bots. If you had a billion dollar idea to revolutionize conversational AI, you would probably want to hire some PhDs and build your product from scratch.

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Through its crowdsourced data collection, participants actively engage rather than having to opt out, which is itself notable. The end goal is to create a multilingual, open source data set that anyone can use to build voice recognition into applications and services. To date, Mozilla Common Voice’s data set comprises some 1,400 hours of voice samples across 18 languages. “Naive utilization of these approaches may lead to bias and inaccurate summarization. However, there are startups and more established companies creating enterprise versions of these systems to streamline the development of fine-tuned models, which should alleviate some of the current challenges,” said Behzadi. “Employing NLP enables people who may not have the advanced skillset for sophisticated analysis to ask questions about their data in simple language.

The team agrees that right now we are struggling to find good use cases for bots. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that even the best conversational AIs available today are little more than glorified voice-activated remote controls. RASA won’t solve this, but it might make it easier for an unconventional player to get into the game.

Setlur believes this has changed how organizations think of growing their businesses and the types of expertise they hire. Business intelligence is transforming from reporting the news to predicting and prescribing relevant actions based on real-time data, according to Sarah O’Brien, VP of go-to-market analytics at ServiceNow. “Natural language querying and natural language explanation are pretty much routinely found in most every BI analytics product today,” Doug Henschen, analyst at Constellation Research, told VentureBeat. Join leaders from Block, GSK, and SAP for an exclusive look at how autonomous agents are reshaping enterprise workflows – from real-time decision-making to end-to-end automation.