Bay Area AI: Antonio Valderrabanos Interview
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! ----- 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 excellent example of this trend, where deeper linguistic knowledge is the middleware needed to create the next generation of conversational interfaces. I started in R&D labs with IBM and Novell. Then I founded Bitext. Bitext is a startup specialized in developing the most accurate multilingual text analysis engines in the market. Bitext works for the largest software and hardware companies in the world. Bitext likes challenges around text analysis and how linguistic middleware can help in business scenarios.