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+title: "Destygo: Towards Self-Learning Chatbots"
+date: 2019-04-06
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+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 Destygo.
+
+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!