watson apis for conversational apps - conversational apps episode 1
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Conversational Apps – Episode 1: Watson APIs for Conversational Apps
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Housekeeping Items
• Webinar console widgets • Resources, Help, Q&A
• Live presentation will be followed by Q&A questions• Ask questions using chat window• Or on Twitter: @IBMWatson #BuildingWithWatson
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Our Experts:
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Zach WalchukDeveloper Evangelist,WDC
Mitch MasonOffering Manager,WEA and Dialog
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Our Goals
• We want to give you all the tools you need to build a conversational application – an app that talks with your users
• Today, we'll give you an overview of the Watson APIs that will make this possible
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Natural Language Classifier
• Train system using your examples
• Classify incoming text by category
• Ideal for short text – less than 1000 characters
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Dialog• Back and forth
conversation with user• Dynamic scripts • Interaction with other
Watson services
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Retrieve and Rank• Find relevant info based on
queries• No pre-defined categories:
looks through all documents• Ranks documents
according to most relevant
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Document Conversion• Input PDF, Word, or
HTML• Receive HTML, Text, or
JSON answer units -used with other Watson services
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Are you ready to get started?Docs: - NLC, Dialog, R&R, Doc Conversion
Demos:- NLC, Dialog, R&R, Doc Conversion
See the services in use: - What's In Theaters and Watson Trend apps
Join our Slack channel for more discussion immediately following the webinar
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The Watson Developer Challengefor Conversational Apps
• An online hackathon with at-the-elbow support from our team
• First prize includes tickets to World of Watson and a chance to show off your app at the World of Watson hackathon
• We'll be kicking off soon...follow @IBMWatson for details!
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Q&A
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What’s next?• Look out for a follow up email with a copy of these slides, a recording of the
webinar, Q&A recap, and additional resources
• The series continues bi-weekly on Wednesdays @ 12pm ET / 9am PT
• Training and Preparing Your Conversational System - Wednesday, February 10• Beyond the Basics for Conversational Apps - Wednesday, February 24• Deploying Your Watson App to Bluemix - Wednesday, March 9• Conversational Application Showcase - Wednesday, March 23
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