Welcome to the (new) Wit.ai blog

Welcome to the new home of our blog — we’re excited you’re here! For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Wit.ai blog, this is where we keep our developer community up to speed on the latest from our team, and help folks make the most out of Wit.ai. We’ll use this…

Community Update — February 2018

We are grateful to our community who continues to give us feedback and help inform our roadmap for Wit. Your input on our issue tracker and FB dev group has a direct impact on what we build and improve. Today we are excited to share our plans for the rest of 2018, and…

Toward smarter entities

First of all, Happy New Year from the Wit team!

Today, we’re adding the wit/notable_person entity to help you detect and get information on notable people. Previously, you had to create a custom entity, provide a lot of training data, and find the corresponding…

Proactive annotations

As part of our ongoing efforts to make Wit.ai easier and more pleasant to use, we are launching a new version of our sentence annotation widget in the web console.

When you type a new sentence in the Understanding tab to teach a new app or improve an existing one…

Messenger Built-In NLP

We are excited to announce 3 updates to Built-In NLP. A few months ago, we released Built-in NLP with the Messenger Platform 2.1 to make it easier for developers to leverage the Wit NLP API when building for Messenger. Built-In NLP allows developers to get default entities (thanks, bye…

Locale support for dates and times

Today, we are adding locale support to improve detection and resolving of date and time expressions.

Context is key in NLP. This is especially true when trying to understand dates or locations. For instance, “today” will be interpreted as…