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Python Ireland Remote MeetUp

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Python Ireland Remote MeetUp

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It's with excitement that we announce the 4th edition of our Remote MeetUp! This time we decided to shake things up a bit and make this a CLI-party!

This evening will be all about Chatbots. And you are going to learn how to deploy one from our CLI.
Our friends from PyAmsterdam will also be tagging along for the night's command-line fun.

This will be an ONLINE event and we require registration to join. Once you register, a link with the webinar information will be sent to your account.
In case Zoom is not your thing (we get it, Linux users), we will also broadcast this juicy event on YouTube (https://youtu.be/E2NXYQY7tUE) and Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/pythonireland). So no one misses out on the fun!
Actually, since you're there already... I reckon you better subscribe, no?! ;)

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Agenda for the night:

6:30 pm - Opening / General Python news;
7 pm WORKSHOP: Chatbot from Command Line;
8:30 pm - Q & A;
9 pm - If no further, closing.

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THE WORKSHOP:
In this workshop, you will get to build your first chatbot from the command line using Rasa open source and Python.

You'll build an assistant that can:

  • detect what the intent of the user is;
  • parse the text to retrieve important references;
  • use custom python code in the conversation;
  • stick to predefined stories (we'll see a hugging face demo to demonstrate why this is a nice thing);
  • actively learn from your conversations.

We'll also briefly discuss topics in NLP in general, like named entity recognition, but the main goal though is to get a working assistant running locally.

Rasa works on top of TensorFlow 2 but you won't need to be familiar with it to get it to run.

If you're new to python, or if you want to make a head start, then you may appreciate these two installation guides for Rasa:

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THE WORKSHOPPER

Vincent D. Warmerdam is a Research Advocate at Rasa where he helps the research team explain and explore modern NLP algorithms for digital assistants. You may have seen him before at PyData.
You can usually find him on stage defending common sense over hype, but you may also have seen some of his open source projects (scikit-lego, evol and whatlies) or some of his online videos (spaCy, algorithm whiteboard). He blogs over at koaning.io.

Looking forward to have you all there, folks!

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