The Rasa Blog
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April 24th, 2018
Rasa Community Update: 100k+ Downloads & 100+ Contributors
Alex Weidauer
Our open source community of makers is growing very fast. The bot hype has come and gone but the real value-adding use cases are here to stay.
April 18th, 2018
Supervised Word Vectors from Scratch in Rasa NLU
Alan Nichol
We’ve released a new pipeline, Rasa NLU 0.12 which uses very little memory, handles hierarchical intents, messages containing multiple intents, and has fewer out-of-vocabulary issues.
October 4th, 2017
A New Approach to Conversational Software
Alan Nichol
We’ve been working on Rasa Core for almost a year and a half and we’re finally ready to release it into the wild. We want Rasa Core to accelerate the arrival of great conversational software. Learn about Rasa Core: what it is, how we got here, and where we’re going next.
October 4th, 2017
Why We Started Rasa: Towards Conversational AI
Alex Weidauer
Despite all the hype around conversational interfaces and bots, we’re still in the early days of conversational software because human conversations get complex very quickly.
October 4th, 2017
Rasa Community: 30,000+ Downloads, 300+ Members on Gitter
Alex Weidauer
It’s only been 9 months since we launched our first open source product, Rasa NLU, and we’re super stoked that our awesome community has hit some important milestones.
August 31st, 2017
Evaluating NLU Services: Conversational Question Answering
Rasa
We talked to Daniel Braun from Technical University of Munich about his SigDial paper evaluating the NLU services for conversational question answering systems.
August 14th, 2017
Rasa Bot SHIBA: Slack Hosted Interface for Business Analytics
Rasa
Justina Petraityte is a data scientist at a video games development company Radiant Worlds. Combining her passion for AI and conversational bots, Justina recently used Rasa NLU to build SHIBA, a bot that works like an AI Data Analyst.
July 21st, 2017
Building with Rasa: eLearning chatbot
Rasa
Nishank Mahore, engineer passionate about data science and conversational AI, used the Rasa NLU library to build a chatbot to help participants of elearning platforms and webinars.
July 17th, 2017
Building with Rasa: Yellow Pages Canada Chatbot
Rasa
Nathan Zylbersztejn shares how he used Rasa NLU framework to build Yellobot, a chatbot for Yellow Pages Canada.
April 12th, 2017
We Don’t Know How to Build Conversational Software Yet
Alan Nichol
There's a lot of work to be done before we build conversational software. Here's what interesting software would look like, and what we’ll need to build it.
September 1st, 2016
Do-it-yourself NLP for bot developers
Alan Nichol
I believe in most cases it makes sense for bot makers to build their own natural language parser, rather than using a third party API. There are good strategic and technical arguments for doing this, and I want to show how easily you can put something together.
August 5th, 2016
Be the Minimum Viable Bot: Put on Your Robot Costume!
Alex Weidauer
If people don’t like your bot when it’s behind the scenes, they definitely won’t like your AI-powered one. Don’t write any code until you’ve tried it yourself.
May 24th, 2016
Bots as Co-Workers: New Levels of Collaboration
Alex Weidauer
My co-founder Alan and I were pretty skeptical about bots when we first started thinking about them last year. In this series of posts, we want to share what changed our mind and what we've learned exploring bot-native UX. This is part 3, exploring collaboration in more detail.
April 11th, 2016
In Search of a Bot-Native UX: Personalization in Enterprise
Alex Weidauer
My co-founder Alan and I were pretty skeptical about bots when we first started thinking about them last year. In this series of posts, we want to share what changed our mind and what we’ve learned exploring bot-native UX.
April 5th, 2016
Bots Shouldn’t Be Scaled-Down Versions of Existing Products
Alex Weidauer
My co-founder [Alan](http://www.twitter.com/alanmnichol) and I were pretty skeptical about bots when we first started to think about them last year. In this series of posts, we want to share what changed our mind and what we've learned exploring bot-native UX.