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Facebook Messenger Update Introduces AI for Business Objectives https://smallbiztrends.com/2017/08/facebook-messenger-platform-update.html

What Is Ray Kurzweil Up to at Google? Writing Your Emails https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-ray-kurzweil-up-to-at-google-writing-your-emails/

USAA pilots conversational AI on Amazon Alexa https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/30913/usaa-pilots-conversational-ai-on-amazon-alexa/retail

Why FPS  Video Games are Crazy-Good at Teaching A.I. Language https://www.inverse.com/article/34934-google-deepmind-carnegie-mellon-a-i-3d-shooters-video-games-language

Facebook Acquires Ozlo As Part Of Conversational AI Push https://www.androidheadlines.com/2017/08/facebook-acquires-ozlo-part-conversational-ai-push.html

Facebook builds natural language processing into Messenger https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/27/facebook-builds-natural-language-processing-into-messenger/

U North Texas Lands Funding to Launch Human Intelligence and Language Technologies Lab https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/07/27/u-north-texas-lands-funding-to-launch-human-intelligence-and-language-technologies-lab.aspx

For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608249/for-computers-too-its-hard-to-learn-to-speak-chinese/

Five Steps to Tackling Big Data with Natural Language Processing https://insidebigdata.com/2017/07/10/five-steps-tackling-big-data-natural-language-processing/

Five Steps to Tackling Big Data with Natural Language Processing   https://insidebigdata.com/2017/07/10/five-steps-tackling-big-data-natural-language-processing/

Critical text mining in historical newspapers from Luxembourg, Germany, France and Switzerland https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uol-ctm070617.php

"Defence looks to AI for national security: Creating 'agent-based system' to wade through intelligence." by Ry Crozier https://www.itnews.com.au/news/defence-looks-to-ai-for-national-security-465047

"Forget chatbots — you should create a workbot instead" https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/14/forget-chatbots-you-should-create-a-workbot-instead/

Healthcare Natural Language Processing Market Opportunities, Demands, Size, Share, Trends, Industry Sales Area and Its Competitors by 2022 http://www.satprnews.com/2017/06/13/healthcare-natural-language-processing-market-opportunities-demands-size-share-trends-industry-sales-area-and-its-competitors-by-2022/

The Israeli Natural Language Processing Meetup: Conversational Data & Hebrew NLP: https://www.meetup.com/The-Israeli-Natural-Language-Processing-Meetup/events/240728858/