Carin Meier: How to Train Your Computer to Talk To You (Clojure)

Every day brings a new story or movie about how the future will be ruled by Artificial Intelligence. How far are we away from discovering Skynet anyway? This talk will take us on a mini adventure in AI and machine learning with Clojure. We’ll take a look at something that is pretty easy for humans to do: telling the difference between a question, statement, or an LOL in some chat text. What seems deceptively easy, becomes a bit harder when you take away punctuation marks. We’ll soon find ourselves on the twisty road of natural language processing, machine learning, and Clojure proto chat bots.

Carin Meier (http://gigasquidsoftware.com/) started off as a professional ballet dancer, studied Physics in college, and ended up as a Software Developer at Cognitect.

Her current tech interests are Clojure, AI, and Robots. She wrote a book Living Clojure.