Best of July

I found the blog "The morning paper", very good. There was a series of papers about chatbot development. The blog is changing topic often by reviewing papers from actual conferences but there are several interesting ones even if it's not about chatbots. Anyway here is the selection about "chatbot" papers:

• On chatbots
• A survey of available corpora for building data-driven dialogue systems
• A neural conversation model
• Incorporating (a) copying mechanism in sequence to sequence learning
• Building end-to-end dialogue systems using generative hierarchical neural network models
• Natural language understanding (almost) from scratch
• End-to-end learning of semantic role labeling using recurrent neural networks
• Machine learning for dialog state tracking: a review
• Multi-domain dialog state tracking using recurrent neural networks
• Ten challenges in highly-interactive dialog systems

Chatbots are not good enough (yet) to replace humans so why do not automate human workforce. Scale (http://www.scaleapi.com/) is a startup who want's to do this. Let get done short tasks by human workers through API calls.

And finally some marketing related infographics from Kissmetrics I came by during the month: How to calculate customer lifetime value: