Why should software industry care about NLP for Tamil language? Venkat is a member of the "Professional Speakers Association of India" and delivers engaging talks for leading corporates and startups. To check his availability contact him through tncv.me or twitter: @venkatarangan.

1. WHY INDUSTRY CARES
ABOUT NLP FOR TAMIL?
Chennai, 7th May 2016

2. WHAT’S OUT THERE
• Apple’s Siri
• Microsoft Cortona
• Amazon’s Echo
• BOTS

3. WHAT ARE BOTS
• A bot is a software application that runs automated
tasks(scripts) over the internet.
• a chatbot is designed to work on conversation with
people and existing on chat app or social network.
• usually AI (NLP) is embedded in a chatbot so the
chatbot can understand the context and perform
much more complicated tasks than what a bot does.

4. WHY BOTS, WHY NOW?
• App fatigue
• Conversation as the interface
• The raise of artificial intelligence

5. MESSENGER USAGE IN APR
‘16

6. TECHNOLOGIES
• Microsoft’s BOT Framework
• Facebook Messenger BOT
• Amazon Alexa Skills

7. MICROSOFT BOT FRAMEWORK
• Bot Framework is a
Microsoft-operated service
and an SDK.
• Bot Framework is one of
many tools Microsoft offers
for building a complete bot.
• Others include: LUIS,
Speech APIs, Azure, more
• Language Understanding
Intelligent Service (LUIS)

8. MICROSOFT BOT CONNECTOR

9. FACEBOOK - wat.ai
• wat.ai supports Tamil, Hindi & Bengali

13. SUMMARY
• Bots are the new apps
• Conversations are the new UI
• AI with NLP is the protocol
• Messaging apps are the new browser