1. Why industry cares about nlp for tamil?
Chennai, 7th May 2016

2. APPLICATIONS of nlp email text to task list
sentiment analysis and data extraction from reviews
machine translation
BOTS

3. what’s out there
Apple’s Siri
Microsoft Cortona
Amazon’s Echo
BOTS

4. WHAT ARE BOTS
A bot is a software application that runs automated tasks(scripts) over the internet.
a chatbot is designed to work on conversation with people and existing on chat app or social network.
usually AI (NLP) is embedded in a chatbot so the chatbot can understand the context and perform much more complicated tasks than what a bot does.

5. WHY BOTS, WHY NOW? App fatigue Conversation as the interface
The raise of artificial intelligence

6. Messenger usage in apr ‘16

7. technologies Microsoft’s BOT Framework Facebook Messenger BOT
Amazon Alexa Skills
Tacobot for slack

8. Microsoft bot framework
Bot Framework is a Microsoft-operated service and an SDK.
Bot Framework is one of many tools Microsoft offers for building a complete bot.
Others include: LUIS, Speech APIs, Azure, more
Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)

9. Microsoft bot connector

10. FACEBOOK - wat.ai
wat.ai supports Tamil, Hindi & Bengali

14. Summary Bots are the new apps Conversations are the new UI
AI with NLP is the protocol
Messaging apps are the new browser