Chatbot API: A service to develop text-based interfaces

Abstract

[eng] This document describes the design and implementation of an API to process natural language commands and translate them into structured data that can be used to build interfaces based on natural language (either written or spoken). In contrast to other existing similar projects, here the focus is on improving developer experience to make the process of building any application as simple as possible. An application built using this APIwon the “Best overall” prize in an online hackathon1 held during the month of May, 2017 by Whenhub2, earning a 5000$ cash prize. The application consisted in a web application that allowed users to create schedules and events by speaking or writing text, using Whenhub’s API.