12 Months ago the Smart Platform Group team started a search for the perfect natural language understanding (NLU) platform to back enterprise software we are developing. In fact our original proof of concept software was built on what was then API.ai (now DialogFlow). We experimented with Wit.ai before it’s stories interface was removed, and we explored several other Platform as a Service offerings. We did all that before discovering Rasa NLU, an open source project backed by the Rasa team.

Since our discovery of Rasa NLU, it’s feature set has only grown and the Rasa team released their own Dialogue Management project called Rasa Core. We really enjoy being a part of the Rasa community and are impressed with all that their team has managed to accomplish.

A primary focus of the SPG team is simplifying the use of advanced systems and tools. Given that focus, when we worked with Rasa’s powerful command-line and API tools we were driven to implement a more accessable interface for NLU. With that we’d like to introduce Articulate.