The chatbot masquerade: creating a personality with NLP and grammar

The chatbots hype seems to keep growing. Now that the leading messaging platforms, including Messenger (Facebook), Telegram or Slack offer bot-related services, the remaining question may become: are chatbots living up to their promises? While on the technical side bot-building frameworks, services, and libraries keep getting better, chatbots' ability to understand their users and express themselves needs to be more refined for mass adoption. Let's dig in to figure out the underlying challenges of natural language processing and achieving a natural-like expression. Essentially, there are two ways to build a chatbot: rule-based bots and chatbots relying on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Natural language processing (NLP) is a way for computers to analyze, understand and derive meaning from human language.