In this invited talk to the [LITHME WG8](https://lithme.eu/working-groups/wg8/) meeting, I gave an introduction to chatbots and its basic building blocks. We discussed the role of fundamental NLP tasks in chatbots and how they can be used to build a …
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a foundational NLP task that aims to provide class labels like Person, Location, Organisation, Time, and Number to words in free text. Named Entities can also be multi-word expressions where the additional I-O-B …