Course Code

chatbotpython

Duration

21 hours (usually 3 days including breaks)

Requirements

Python programming experience

Overview

ChatBots are computer programs that automatically simulate human responses via chat interfaces. ChatBots help organizations maximize their operations efficiency by providing easier and faster options for their user interactions.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to build chatbots in Python.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

Understand the fundamentals of building chatbots
Build, test, deploy, and troubleshoot various chatbots using Python

Audience

Developers

Format of the course

Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Course Outline

Introduction to ChatBots

Overview of Conversational Software

Building Your First Basic ChatBot

Setting Up Your ChatBot to Receive Text and Respond to Users
Adding the Basic Elements of Personality
Teaching Your ChatBot to Answer Basic Questions
Adding Variety to Your ChatBot's Responses
Making Your ChatBot Ask Questions
Building Rule-Based Systems for Parsing Text

Using Machine Learning to Turn Natural Language into Structured Data for Your ChatBot

Overview of SpaCy, Scikit-learn, and Rasa NLU
Installing and Configuring SpaCy, Scikit-learn, and Rasa NLU
Intents and Entities and their Classifications
Natural Language Processing Fundamentals Theory Refresher
Building Models from Real-World Sentences Using the ATIS Dataset

Building Your Virtual Assistant ChatBot

Overview of a Virtual Assistant
Working with SQL in Python
Teaching Your ChatBot to Access Data from a Database
Writing Queries from Parameters
Building a Database from Natural Language
Implementing Custom Virtual Assistant Features on Your ChatBot
- Answering Specific Queries through Database Access
- Refining Search, Performing Basic Negation, and Filtering Data

Making Your ChatBot Stateful: Keeping Track of States of Interaction for Better ChatBot Dialogs