watson apis for conversational apps - conversational apps episode 1

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:


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


Dialog• Back and forth

conversation with user• Dynamic scripts • Interaction with other

Watson services


Retrieve and Rank• Find relevant info based on

queries• No pre-defined categories:

looks through all documents• Ranks documents

according to most relevant


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!



Q&A


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


Thank you for attending!

Contact usPhone: 1-877-253-0308

Email: [email protected]: Watson Developer Cloud

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