IBM Watson Conversation Service

An IBM Watson Conversation Service is a conversation service (NLU service and dialog manager) associated with IBM Watson.

• Context:
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• Example(s):
  • IBM Watson Conversation Service, 2017.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • AWS Lex, Nuance Mix, Google API.AI.
  • IBM NLU, IBM Watson Text-to-Speech, IBM Watson Speech-to-Text.
• See: Shallow NLU System.

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References

2017

• http://youtube.com/watch?v=sSfTcxDrmSI

2017

• http://ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/conversation/index.html
  • QUOTE: … The Conversation service supports Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Dutch. Arabic is supported through the use of the Conversation API but not through the tooling interface. …

    This diagram shows the overall architecture of a complete solution:
    

2017

• http://medium.com/@datamonsters/25-chatbot-platforms-a-comparative-table-aeefc932eaff

Caption

Bot Name	Platform	Features	Programming languages / Apps / Integration	Technical details	License	Languages	Project Link	Channels	Clients/Fields	More information
IBM Watson Conversation Service	-	Built on a neural network (one billion Wikipedia words). Has three main components: Intents, Entities, Dialog	Node SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, iOS SDK, Unity SDK	-	Free, Standard, Premium https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/conversation.html#pricing-block	English, Japanese	https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/conversation.html	speech, image, text	Healthcare, Finance, Legal, Retail, Fantasy Football	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rTl1WEbg5U

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