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Mindmeld: An Open-source, Deep-domain Conversational AI Toolkit

on YouTube 30m
Talkat Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2019 · 2019-08-21..08-23· [large-language-models, ai-assisted-development]

speaker

name:Vijay T Ramakrishnan
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/6PpTZ6BV2kE
slides:none on file

summary

Mindmeld is an open-source, Python toolkit (licensed Apache 2) that builds production-grade voice and chat assistants by combining pattern rules, ML models and IR instead of end-to-end black boxes. It powers Cisco WebEx assistant, uses Elasticsearch plus TensorFlow, scikit‑learn, numpy and SciPy, and provides a dialog manager, entity resolver and QA layer. Typical training needs are 500–1,000 queries for domain/intent and 1,000–10,000 for open entities; deployments hit 95%+ entity accuracy when tuned and can run cloud or on‑prem.

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chapters (23)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 1:05Conversational interfaces are the next frontier
  3. 2:12Building production-quality conversational assistants is one of today's hardest Al challenges
  4. 3:58Today's machine learning tools are insufficient Cloud NLP Services
  5. 6:46The Mind Meld Conversational Al Platform
  6. 7:33Github
  7. 7:53Natural Language Processor understands the user query
  8. 8:48Domain Classifier assigns the user query to a pre- defined domain
  9. 9:21Intent Classifier determines the user intent
  10. 10:16Entity Recognizer detects all relevant entities in the user query
  11. 11:27Role Classifier assigns role labels to extracted entities
  12. 12:05Entity Resolver transforms each extracted entity into its canonical form
  13. 13:09Language Parser clusters extracted entities into meaningful entity groups
  14. 15:22Dialogue Manager directs the flow of the conversation
  15. 16:46Application Manager is the platform orchestrator
  16. 17:51A sample interaction with an enterprise voice assistant
  17. 18:16Domain Classification
  18. 18:38Intent Classification
  19. 18:54Entity Recognition
  20. 20:14Role Classification
  21. 21:04Language Parsing
  22. 21:34Dialogue Management & Question Answering
  23. 28:33Entity Resolution

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