The Rasa Blog
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December 19th, 2019
Rasa's Community Showcase: What Developers Are Building
Karen White
We launched our new Community Showcase to highlight the range of projects built with Rasa and to help developers get inspired by what’s possible.
December 17th, 2019
Rasa Open Source + Rasa X: Better Together
Rasa
We recently launched Rasa X, a free toolset that helps you quickly iterate on and improve the quality of your contextual assistant built using Rasa Open Source.
December 16th, 2019
3 years! - Rasa Community Update
Alex Weidauer
Rasa is 3 years old and the community is growing fast. 2019 was an incredible year: 6 x downloads, 4 x forum members growth, Rasa Developer Summit, new products and more developer education
December 10th, 2019
The Rasa Masterclass Handbook: Episode 4
Rasa
In Episode 4, we’ll examine what each component does and what’s happening under the hood when a model is trained.
December 5th, 2019
It’s about time we get rid of intents
Alan Nichol
We’ve made a bunch of progress towards level 3 conversational AI but to really get there, we have to stop relying on intents.
December 2nd, 2019
NLP vs. NLU: What's the Difference and Why Does It Matter?
Rasa
The terms NLP and NLU are often used interchangeably, but they have slightly different meanings. Learn the difference between natural language processing and natural language understanding and why they're important for successful conversational applications.
November 26th, 2019
ConveRT Featurizer Makes Sentence Representations Efficient
Daksh Varshneya
Introducing a new featurizer based on a recently proposed sentence encoding model, ConveRT. We explain how you can use it in Rasa to get very strong performance with a model that trains in minutes on a CPU.
November 14th, 2019
Build a Mobile Voice Assistant with Rasa and Aimybox
Dmitriy Chechyotkin
In this post, we’ll show you how easy and fast it can be to build and run your own Android voice assistant, using only open source tools and with minimal programming.
November 8th, 2019
The Rasa Masterclass Handbook: Episode 3
Rasa
Episode 3 of the Rasa Masterclass is the first of a 2-part module on training NLU models. In this portion, we’ll focus on choosing a training pipelin configuration, training the model, and testing the model.
November 4th, 2019
The Humans Behind the Bots: Justina Petraityte
Rasa
The people of Rasa come together from diverse backgrounds to solve today’s most interesting challenges in NLP and dialogue management. Today we’re talking with Justina Petraityte, Head of Developer Relations at Rasa.
November 1st, 2019
The Rasa Masterclass Handbook: Episode 2
Rasa
In Episode 2 of the Rasa Masterclass, we focus on generating NLU training data, including: the basics of conversation design, how to format your assistant’s NLU training data, and how to define the intents and entities your assistant can understand.
October 24th, 2019
The Rasa Masterclass Handbook: Episode 1
Rasa
In Episode 1 of the Rasa Masterclass, we do four things: define what a contextual assistant is, identify the components of Rasa, install Rasa, and create a Rasa starter project.
October 23rd, 2019
Superhero Spotlight: Arthur Temporim
Emma Jade Wightman
For our first ever spotlight, we are excited to introduce 23 year old Arthur Temporim, a Software Engineer from Brazil and Rasa Superhero since August 2018.
October 17th, 2019
A Look Back at Rasa Developer Summit 2019
Karen White
During two panel discussions and 14 talks, we heard from speakers at companies including N26, Adobe, Lemonade, and Facebook, who related experiences building custom integrations, shared cutting-edge research, and outlined strategies for leading effective product teams.
October 1st, 2019
Announcing the Rasa Masterclass Video Series
Justina Petraitytė
The Rasa Masterclass is a weekly series of videos that will cover the entire process of developing a contextual AI assistant - from just an idea, all the way to deploying an application in production.