The Rasa Blog
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May 19th, 2021
Benchmarking Success for Enterprise Conversational Teams
Alan Nichol
The enterprise readiness scorecard is a new tool from Rasa to help enterprises create concrete, actionable success plans.
May 12th, 2021
Introducing Rasalit: Streamlit Apps to Explore Rasa Models
Vincent Warmerdam
Introducing Rasalit! It's a collection of streamlit apps that make it easier to explore your trained Rasa models.
April 28th, 2021
5 Things Teams Should Consider When Building a Virtual Assistant
Cooper Lower
Conversational AI is a multidisciplinary effort; it takes multiple skill sets to get it right. On top of that, many companies are still in the experimentation phase of incorporating assistants into their business, still learning how assistants can create the most value for customers.
April 23rd, 2021
Guide to Building Conversational AI Proofs of Concept
Karen White
This guide zeroes in on best practices for building conversational AI proofs of concept, to help teams create a solid foundation for future development.
April 21st, 2021
Rasa Open Source Now Supports spaCy 3.0
Vincent Warmerdam
In February this year, spaCy 3.0 was released. This was a major release with many new features, including new pre-trained models. Rasa Open Source 2.5 now includes support for this new version of spaCy, which brings many new features to the Rasa community.
April 19th, 2021
The Humans Behind the Bots: Laurence Young
Rasa
Today we’re talking with Laurence, Solutions Engineer - Presales at Rasa. We’ll learn Laurence’s story and explore the day-to-day projects and technologies they’re passionate about.
April 19th, 2021
Why Rasa uses Sparse Layers in Transformers
Johannes Mosig
Vladimir Vlasov
Feed forward neural network layers are typically fully connected, or _dense_. But do we actually need to connect every input with every output? And if not, which inputs should we connect to which outputs?
April 12th, 2021
The Five Step Journey to Becoming a Rasa Developer
Rachael Tatman
In this post, we’ll walk you through the major landmarks that most Rasa developers will run into in their developer journey and suggest some materials that you might find helpful when you reach that step yourself.
April 7th, 2021
Deploy Custom Actions to Rasa X Using Gitlab DevOps Platform
Vincent Warmerdam
Virtual assistants do more than just carry on conversations. They can send emails, make updates to a calendar, or call an API endpoint.…
April 1st, 2021
Announcing: Rasa for Pets
Vincent Warmerdam
Rasa is expanding into an exciting, previously untapped market: species to species communication. We're very proud to announce that Rasa has developed the world's very first multispecies chatbot for pets.
March 29th, 2021
Intents & Entities: Understanding the Rasa NLU Pipeline
Vincent Warmerdam
In a Rasa project, the NLU pipeline defines the processing steps that convert unstructured user messages into intents and entities. It…
March 25th, 2021
New Rasa Starter Pack: Insurance
Rasa
We’re thrilled to announce the addition of a new open-sourced starter pack: the Insurance starter pack.
March 24th, 2021
#StandForAsians: Against Anti-Asian Hate and Racism
Rasa
The violent shootings in Atlanta last week are part of a rising tide of anti-Asian hate, violence, and racism. Rasa condemns these acts and stands in solidarity with the victims and AAPI communities.
March 12th, 2021
The Humans Behind the Bots: Maxime Verger
Rasa
Today we’re talking with Maxime, Engineering Manager at Rasa. We’ll learn Maxime’s story and explore the day-to-day projects and technologies they’re passionate about.
March 9th, 2021
Proper Name Detection
Vincent Warmerdam
Detecting names in a user message is a common challenge when designing a virtual assistant. It's a task many Rasa users face, which is why…