First steps in Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning covers a family of algorithms with the purpose of maximize a cumulative reward that an agent can obtain from an environment. It seems ...
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Program Induction and Synthesis at ICML 2018
The International Conference on Machine Learning ICML took place this year in Europe, in the beautiful city of Stockholm from 10th to 15th of July. This is ...
The Basic Principles of Language
What is this exhilarating noise come out of my mouth when I talk? Not surely because that precise sequence of sounds, pops and squeezes are particularly melo...
Concept Search by Word Embeddings
Catalog search is one of the most important factor to the success of e-commerce sites and accurate and relevant results are critical to successful conversio...
Stochastic Conversational Workflows
Traditionally, user interfaces are a series of screens and forms for exchanging informations with the user. Most of the applications start with a main screen...
Context and Sequentiality in Conversational Applications
Contextual memory in conversational applications plays a central role in any type of interaction between the Chatbot and the user. It is the bidirectional tr...
Deeplearning in Text Classification
In the Divine Comedy, Minos is a daemon appointed to guard the entrance of the hell. He listens to the sins of souls and indicates them their destinations by...
Automated Question Answering using Semantic Networks
I worked recently in a small prototype that combines NLP analysis and semantic datasources for answering simple generic questions, by learning how to get the...
Machine Comprehension on Chatbots
One of the most demanded feature in chatbots is the ability to automatically provide helpful informations. Users might ask about how to pay the purchases onl...
SOA example application
SOA describes a set of patterns for creating loosely coupled, standards-based business-aligned services that, because of the separation of concerns betwee...
Gradle archetype for Spring applications
I am releasing a Gradle archetype useful for creating Java/Groovy applications based on Springframework. Of course, it is not a real archetype because such a...
Software architect mistakes
I think that to get up in the morning and brew a good cup of coffee is one of the best way to start the day. You know, the heady fragrance that emanates from...
Cool DSL with Groovy
Domain model design has never been confused with ‘ease’. From the dawn of its conception, generating executable Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams mean...