Wit relies both on machine learning and rules-based systems. One of these rule-based systems is Duckling, our open-sourced probabilistic parser to detect entities like dates and times, numbers, and durations. Due to our extensive growth, Duckling was not scaling as fast as…

We have a few updates to share with you today — most exciting is the launch of Built-in NLP for Messenger, launching with Messenger Platform 2.1 just released today.

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…

We introduced composite entities on May 2015 but had to remove them temporarily due to the launch of Bot Engine last year. Many of you asked us to reintroduce them since then. And you have been super patient ;-)

Today we are making it easier for you to know how Wit finds entities in a sentence. Wit allows you to extract meaning from a user query as a list of entities. We employ various lookup strategies for entities, as described in our docs. Wit can use…

In September 2013, we created Wit to make it easy for developers to add a natural language interface to their apps or devices. You can read more on our journey here. For the past 3.5 years, our community has kept growing. Today, we are pleased to announce…

Responding to feedback on our FB group, we wrote a small community update to reflect a bit on our journey and share how we’re thinking about the future.

Wit started as a private beta in September 2013. The idea was to provide a simple tool to make it easy for…