The Rasa Blog
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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.