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June 8th, 2022
Changes to the Rasa X Community Edition (Free Version)
Soufiane Houri
Today we are announcing that Rasa will not be releasing new versions of the Rasa X Community Edition, making Release 1.1 the last free version of Rasa X. Rasa will no longer issue new bug fixes, security updates, or patches for Rasa X.
April 21st, 2022
3 ways to use the new global slot mappings in your chatbot development
Johannes Mosig
Rachael Tatman
Slots let you store information over the course of a conversation, like a user's name, account number and whether they're booking a flight or train. Slot mapping is the process of gathering and preparing this information so that the dialogue policy can use it to choose the next action or insert it in the bot’s response templates. With Rasa 3.0 we enabled “global slot mappings”, which gives you more control over this information flow.
March 23rd, 2022
Tracker Loading, Checkpoint Resolution, and Story Augmentation
Felicia Körner
This blog post will walk you through the internals of how Rasa turns the conversation data you provide into the format needed for training and testing policies, as well as the automated data augmentation that is performed.
February 7th, 2022
Custom Retrieval Actions in Rasa with Jina and Lunr
Vincent Warmerdam
In this blog post, we’re going to explore Jina and Lunr to build a Rasa custom action that will allow our assistant to recommend recipes to users. This allows us to compare classic search techniques with more modern contextualized methods.
February 3rd, 2022
Rasa Recognized in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
Scout Ellam-Scholes
Rasa Recognized as Niche Player by Gartner in their first ever Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms Magic Quadrant Report
February 1st, 2022
Enterprise Success with Conversational AI Webinar Recap
Lauren Goerz
Explore key takeaways from our December 2021 interviews with Rasa customers on their enterprise successes with conversational AI
January 25th, 2022
Testing Rasa Custom Actions and Forms Using Postman
Greg Stephens
In this post, we’ll review a method to automate testing of your Rasa custom actions and forms using Postman.
January 3rd, 2022
Updated Learning Resources for Rasa Open Source 3.0
Vincent Warmerdam
A few weeks ago we released Rasa Open Source 3.0, a new major version. This major update contains new features, quality of life improvements as well as big architecture updates. To make it easier for developers to get started with we’ve created new learning material and updated a big chunk of our existing content.
December 20th, 2021
Assisting Visually Impaired People in the Kitchen [Part 2]
Angus Addlesee
Angus and his team developed textual VQA components to accurately understand what a user is asking, extract relevant text from images in an intelligent manner, and to provide natural language answers that build upon the context of previous questions. As their system is created to be assistive, they designed it with a particular focus on privacy, transparency, and controllability.
December 6th, 2021
Markers in Rasa Open Source 3.0
Aciel Eshky
Vincent Warmerdam
As part of Rasa Open Source 3.0, we’ve launched a new experimental feature called Markers. This feature will help Rasa Developers evaluate the performance of their assistants by counting how often specific events play out in a conversation. This blog post will explain what the feature does and how to use it.
December 3rd, 2021
Slots in Rasa Open Source 3.0
Rachael Tatman
In Rasa Open Source 3.0 you now need to explicitly state how each slot will be set in the domain file. This replaces the previous method where slots were sometimes set implicitly, which resulted in duplicated work and occasionally confusing bugs. You can find more information on the docs and migration guide.
November 18th, 2021
What's ahead in Rasa Open Source 3.0
Justina Petraitytė
We are getting very close to our new major release: Rasa Open Source 3.0. As we get ready for this big release, we are thrilled to give our community a sneak peek into what’s coming, including the most important changes and improvements.
November 12th, 2021
The Humans Behind the AI: Pedro Araujo
Pedro De Araujo
Today we’re talking with Pedro, Sales Development Representative at Rasa. We’ll learn Pedro’s story and explore the day-to-day projects and technologies they’re passionate about.
October 27th, 2021
Bending the ML Pipeline in Rasa 3.0
Vincent Warmerdam
Rasa Open Source 3.0 will start using a new computational backend. Conceptually, the machine learning pipeline will resemble a graph instead of a linear sequence of components. This blog post will explain what benefits to expect as a result of this change. Although it’s a big conceptual change, the changes won’t require you to change your config.yml.
October 22nd, 2021
The Humans Behind the Bots: Ben Quachtran
Rasa
Today we’re talking with Ben, Solutions Engineer at Rasa. We’ll learn Ben’s story and explore the day-to-day projects and technologies they’re passionate about.