Bay Area AI: Antonio Valderrabanos, Bot Training: How to Achieve Full Automation

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Everything looks promising in the world of bots: big players are pushing platforms to build them (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Apple), large retail companies are adopting them (Starbucks, Domino’s, British Airways), press is excited about movies becoming reality; and we users are eager to use. However, one dark hole remains in this scenario. Creating a bot relies on manual work, is time consuming and error prone. In the talk, we’ll see, in practice, how to fully automate the bot training process, still keeping the user in control. We will discuss two approaches: a) staring with a user-defined intent, generating all utterances that instantiate it, running intent detection and tagging for those utterances and, finally, feeding the bot with this training material b) using one single master utterance as reference and detecting all other utterances that express the same meaning, then rewriting all user queries with the same meaning As a practical example, we’ll train a chatbot with Google-API.ai for approach b) and another one with Microsoft-LUIS for a) Antonio Valderrabanos: I have a long experience on how to use Deep Linguistic Analysis to solve business problems in the area of text analysis. My current focus is on how to exploit linguistic knowledge to improve machine learning and AI engines, to make them smarter and easier to train. Chatbots are an…