NLP for bots,
and bots for NLP

Esther Seyffarth

esther.seyffarth@gmail.com
@ojahnn
Transcript available here.

What's a bot?

Dear humans, please enjoy this Boggle board:

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🎆 🐌 😸
— BoggleBot (@Botgle) 29. Oktober 2016

In the antebellum United States a white person just purchased a slave.
— Every Three Minutes (@Every3Minutes) 1. November 2016

It is simply explained
thus; the mind by venus
necessarily rushes
greatest at the equator. pic.twitter.com/GcoTiALEuF
— The Ephemerides (@the_ephemerides) 20. Oktober 2016

Instagramming Their Food: The Real Reason For Jobless Millennials?
— Thinkpiece Bot (@thinkpiecebot) 30. Oktober 2016

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH #debate
— endless screaming (@infinite_scream) 20. Oktober 2016

♡ have you taken a break yet today? no? you can afford yourself fifteen minutes of daydreaming and breathing! go take one! ♡
— ♡ take a break pls ♡ (@pls_take_breaks) 7. November 2016

It's tough being a cheerful lady in a world causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.
— a bot in the world (@Bot_in_World) 30. Oktober 2016

So much to learn...

How to get interesting content from different corpora!
How to use different APIs!
How to represent data!
How to deal with weird Unicode symbols!
How to write every regular expression you ever need!

It's hard being a viviparous lady in an egg-laying world.
— a bot in the world (@Bot_in_World) 27. September 2016

It's exhausting being a profound woman in a world concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious.
— a bot in the world (@Bot_in_World) 27. September 2016