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title: "Mindsay: Towards Self-Learning Chatbots"
date: 2019-04-06
tags: chatbots, nlp, machine learning, reinforcement learning
---

Last week I made a presentation at the [[https://www.meetup.com/Paris-NLP/][Paris NLP Meetup]], on how we
implemented self-learning chatbots in production at Mindsay.

It was fascinating to other people interested in NLP about the
technologies and models we deploy at work! It's always nice to have
some feedback about our work, and preparing this talk forced me to
take a step back about what we do and rethink it in new interesting
ways.

Also check out the [[https://nlpparis.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/paris-nlp-season-3-meetup-4-at-meilleursagents/][other presentations]], one about diachronic
(i.e. time-dependent) word embeddings and the other about the
different models and the use of Knowledge Bases for Information
Retrieval. (This might even give us new ideas to explore...)

If you're interested about exciting applications at the confluence of
Reinforcement Learning and NLP, the slides are available [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aS1NpPxRzsQCsAqoQIVZrdf8R1Y2VKrT/view][here]]. It
includes basic RL theory, how we transposed it to the specific case of
conversational agents, the technical and mathematical challenges in
implementing self-learning chatbots, and of course plenty of
references for further reading if we piqued your interest!

**Update:** The videos are now available on the [[https://nlpparis.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/paris-nlp-season-3-meetup-4-at-meilleursagents/][NLP Meetup website]].

**Update 2:** Destygo changed its name to [[https://www.mindsay.com/][Mindsay]]!
