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Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development

You're reading from Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development Build chatbots and voice user interfaces with Chatfuel, Dialogflow, Microsoft Bot Framework, Twilio, and Alexa Skills

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788294669

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Alexa Skills

Concepts

Chatbots

Author (1):

Janarthanam

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Tour Guide for Your City FREE CHAPTER

3. Let's Talk Weather

4. Building a Persona Bot

5. Let's Catch a Train

6. Restaurant Search

7. The News Bot

8. My TV Guide

9. My Man Friday

1. More Resources

Exploring a news data service

Let's now build a bot that will tweet news articles to its followers at regular intervals. We will then extend it to be personalized by users through a conversation that happens over direct messaging with the bot. In order to build a news bot, we need a source where we can get news articles. We are going to explore a news service called NewsAPI.org in this section. NewsAPI is a service that aggregates news articles from roughly 70 newspapers around the globe.

Setting up NewsAPI

Let us set up an account with the NewsAPI data service and get the API key:

Go to newsapi.org:

Click Get API key.
Register using your email.
Get your API key.

Explore the sources: https://newsapi.org/v1/sources?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY.

There are about 70 sources from across the globe including popular ones such as BBC News, Associated Press, Bloomberg, and CNN. You might notice that each source has a category tag attached. The possible options are: business, entertainment, gaming, general, music...

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Authors (1)

Janarthanam

Janarthanam

Srini Janarthanam is an expert in conversational systems and has been working in the field for over 15 years. He has led and worked on several projects, building conversational systems for a variety of domains including tourism, healthcare, and education. He obtained doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Edinburgh for his work in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. He is currently the co-founder and director of Chatomate, a UK brand building tailored chatbots, AI, and automation solutions for businesses. Previously, he worked as a research associate at Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh. He has published over 50 articles and papers in online chatbot magazines, journals, and international research conferences.

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