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Natural Language Processing with Java - Second Edition

By : Richard M. Reese
Book Image

Natural Language Processing with Java - Second Edition

By: Richard M. Reese

Overview of this book

Natural Language Processing (NLP) allows you to take any sentence and identify patterns, special names, company names, and more. The second edition of Natural Language Processing with Java teaches you how to perform language analysis with the help of Java libraries, while constantly gaining insights from the outcomes. You’ll start by understanding how NLP and its various concepts work. Having got to grips with the basics, you’ll explore important tools and libraries in Java for NLP, such as CoreNLP, OpenNLP, Neuroph, and Mallet. You’ll then start performing NLP on different inputs and tasks, such as tokenization, model training, parts-of-speech and parsing trees. You’ll learn about statistical machine translation, summarization, dialog systems, complex searches, supervised and unsupervised NLP, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned more about NLP, neural networks, and various other trained models in Java for enhancing the performance of NLP applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 12. Creating a Chatbot

Chatbots have become popular in the last few years, and are used by many businesses to help customers to perform routine tasks through the web. Social media and messenger platforms have added to the growth of chatbots more than anything. Recently, Facebook messenger hit 100,000 bots on its messenger platform. Along with chatbots, voicebots are also gaining a lot of traction nowadays, and Alexa by Amazon is a prime example of a voicebot. Chatbots have now penetrated deep into customer markets so that the customer gets a prompt reply and doesn't have to wait for information. With time, the evolution of machine learning has evolved chatbots from being simply conversational to action-oriented, where they can now help customers book appointments, get product details, and even take user's inputs, bookings and reservations, and orders online. The healthcare industry is seeing that the use of chatbots can help with ever-growing number of patients.

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