As I covered in my introductory post, parbaking is a concept where bread is baked to 80% of completion and then stopped. The remaining 20% is then finished where the bread will be sold. In many cases, this is a grocery store that wants to offer fresh bread but doesn’t...
If you’re into baking, you may have heard of parbaked bread. This is where you bake your bread to about 80% done and then rapidly freeze it for transportation or storage. When you finally need your bread, you complete that remaining 20% of baking. Parbaking is how...
In the first part of this series, we created a knowledge base for our chatbot. Now it’s time to consume that knowledge base. When we’re done, the chatbot can be hosted on a variety of solutions and ways. For example, we could embed it within Microsoft Teams, GroupMe,...
Given that you want to create a QnA-style chat, then Azure has a solution for you. Chatbots are becoming more and more common, but building one from scratch seems terribly complicated. Just the natural language processing alone would be a monumental task. And when you...
Text analysis is very important for many businesses and can provide a wealth of useful information. Traditionally, having a system that did this meant developing a text analysis system from scratch. With many services providing text analysis as a service (such as...
Automating the retrieval of content from HTML pages isn’t something that often comes up, but it does happen. Sometimes people even want to screen scrape their own systems as a way of integration (which is not always the best idea). This automated retrieval of...
