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24 alternatives to DOT
A collection of NLP (natural language processing) APIs
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. DOT launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Allen NLP▲72An open-source NLP research library, built on PyTorch
2017 · allenai.org · its alternatives →
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Helping developers make bots great again
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Natural language API using Google machine learning
2016 · cloud.google.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · wit.ai · its alternatives →
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2014 · wit.ai · its alternatives →
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ExplainToMe▲182Automatic web article summarizer
2016 · explaintome.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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Recast.AI 2.0▲164The ultimate end-to-end collaborative bot platform
2017 · recastai.com · its alternatives →
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Swift AI▲243A.I. and machine learning library written in Swift
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The basics of VUI design
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
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State of the art text understanding for developers
2018 · its alternatives →
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nlp_compromise▲149NLP tool for understanding, changing & playing w/ english.
2016 · nlp-compromise.github.io · its alternatives →
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