Verbal Features and Dialogue Sentiment with spaCy — In this article, we will see how verbal functional categories used in customer dialogue text and how these categories contribute to the semantics, especially the text sentiment. Verb phrase in a sentence sometimes can carry huge semantics, sometimes hint the sentiment only by itself even though if one does not…

A Practical Turkish Articulatory Phonetics Intro — In this article, we will explore some details of the Turkish phonetic system, including tips for better quality Turkish ASR development 😉 Before shifting to Conversational AI, I worked in a speech team. In this article, I will share the tips I found out during developing a Turkish speech recognition…

Battle of Semantics: Who models the data better? — Dear readers, in this part I will take you to the semantics land. In the first part, we compared Grakn and Neo4j worlds in general to see how the paradigm difference lead to different ways of doing things. …

An exhaustive comparison between two most popular knowledge bases — Dear readers, in this series of articles I compared two popular knowledge bases: Neo4j and Grakn. I decided to write this comparison long time ago upon your requests, however kismet is for now 😊 This is a detailed comparison in 3 parts: first part is devoted to technical details, the…

"Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."…

An intro to linguistic foundations of computational pragmatics — "That's a great deal to make one word mean", Alice said in a thoughtful tone. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that", said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra". Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll Conversational AI has come a long way since the…