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Building bot-ready knowledge bases

Structured writing and AI technologies: A synergistic solution
Grocery shopping project
Grocery shopping project

Tips for knowledge base owners and managers on synergistic ways to improve the quality of their information and the efficiency of their AI-based delivery systems.

Published blogs

Building bot-ready knowledge bases: Objectives for the grocery shopping chatbot
Building bot-ready knowledge bases: The grocery shopping project
Building bot-ready knowledge bases: Introduction

Building bot-ready knowledge bases

Structured writing and AI technologies: A synergistic solution

How to improve the quality of your knowledge base and the efficiency of your AI-based delivery system.

“Building bot-ready knowledge bases” (home page)

  • Building bot-ready knowledge bases #3: Objectives for the grocery shopping chatbot
    December 26, 2019Anna
  • Building bot-ready knowledge bases #2: The grocery shopping project
    December 2, 2019Anna
  • Building bot-ready knowledge bases #1: Introduction
    September 26, 2019Anna

2019 consulting project: Linguistic analysis and text annotation

Nov 2018 – Ongoing

Company

Moveworks, AI start-up located in Mountain View, California. Came out of stealth April 2019. On November 14, 2019, announced $75 million Series B financing round. Customers include Autodesk, Broadcom, Freedom Financial, Medallia, Nutanix, and Rambus.

Product

Cloud-based AI platform, purpose-built for large enterprises, that resolves employees’ IT support issues instantly and automatically.

Role

Data specialist

Projects

Annotation of KB articles and user intents for machine learning and natural language processing. Linguistic and user experience analytics. Named entity recognition.

2019 consulting project: Museum record cataloging

2014 – Ongoing

For the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, researched, cataloged, and photographed computer artifacts and archival documents. Current record-count is over 5000.

My hi-tech adventure… continued

Dick’s reminiscences of his career in the computer industry 2012-ongoing

My hi-tech adventure… continued (home page)

  • Data science: A comparison of interpreted languages for AI and data science
    September 13, 2019Dick
  • Data science: Simple gradient descent in Python
    May 2, 2019Dick
  • Data science: First Harvard edX classes
    March 7, 2019Dick
  • Data science: An introduction to neural networks
    March 3, 2019Dick
  • Data science: Website traffic analysis with R
    February 6, 2019Dick

Communication? MIScommunication?

Tips on crafting the message you want to deliver

Communication, or MIScommunication? (home page)

  • Writing for an international audience: Acknowledge your users’ uniqueness
    June 27, 2019Anna
  • Writing for an international audience: Don’t insult your users’ pocketbooks
    June 17, 2019Anna
  • Writing for an international audience: Don’t upset your users’ sensibilities
    May 27, 2019Anna
  • Writing for an international audience: General advice
    April 28, 2019Anna
  • MIScommunication: Area inhabited by venomous reptiles and insects
    February 19, 2019Anna

Computer history

Our experiences and some of our more fascinating finds as volunteers at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California

Computer history (home page)

  • The long history of natural language queries and searches
    July 19, 2019
  • The ancient roots of modern information retrieval
    June 3, 2019
  • Five Fascinating Finds…
    December 30, 2017
  • Magnetic drum computers of the 1950s
    August 28, 2017
  • DEC archiving project at the Computer History Museum
    March 8, 2017

My hi-tech adventure… original

Dick’s reminiscences of his career in the computer industry 1960-2012

My hi-tech adventure… original (home page)

  • My high-tech adventure: Chapter 11, VR Communications, Inc.
    November 30, 2018
  • My high-tech adventure: Chapter 10, Pillar Data Systems
    November 23, 2018
  • My high-tech adventure: Chapter 9, Code Samples
    November 18, 2018
  • My high-tech adventure: Chapter 8, IBM
    November 10, 2018
  • My high-tech adventure: Chapter 7, Personal Computers
    October 23, 2018

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Linguistic analysis, text annotation, writing, editing, scripting in Python and R

Recent Posts

  • Building bot-ready knowledge bases #3: Objectives for the grocery shopping chatbot
    December 26, 2019Anna
  • Building bot-ready knowledge bases #2: The grocery shopping project
    December 2, 2019Anna
  • Building bot-ready knowledge bases #1: Introduction
    September 26, 2019Anna
  • Data science: A comparison of interpreted languages for AI and data science
    September 13, 2019Dick
  • The long history of natural language queries and searches
    July 19, 2019Dick
  • Writing for an international audience: Acknowledge your users’ uniqueness
    June 27, 2019Anna
  • Writing for an international audience: Don’t insult your users’ pocketbooks
    June 17, 2019Anna
  • The ancient roots of modern information retrieval
    June 3, 2019Dick
  • Writing for an international audience: Don’t upset your users’ sensibilities
    May 27, 2019Anna
  • Data science: Simple gradient descent in Python
    May 2, 2019Dick

To contact Anna or Dick

avanraaphorst@gmail.com

rjohnson42@gmail.com

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