Alabot is a Pune based startup that has built an Interactive Intelligent Agent (i.e. bot) based on NLP (Natural Language Processing) and AI (artificial intelligence).

Leaving all the tech jingles aside and simplistically put, Alabot has built software that will analyze, understand, and interpret languages that humans use naturally, so that eventually you will be able to address your application as though you were addressing another person (i.e. in a typical syntax-free discussion format).

You can try out a working example by

• adding alabot.travel@gmail.com to your GTalk account.
• and then ask questions like “flight from bangalore to mumbai on 10th feb for 4 adults 1 kid”..(or what’er travel query you want to punch)
• The bot will interpret the query and will suggest answers.

Alabot is platform agnostic and is compatible with any IM as well as email/sms or web client and can potentially “talk enable” any application.

Alabot uses NLP as the core platform and has built layers of human-like direct conversation. Opportunities for alabot are huge – it can directly compete with live chat clients (like liveperson) which are mainly used by ecommerce sites to answer real time queries from visitors, or partner with sms search services for interactive queries; or even enable voice search (how about Ubona+alabot combination?)

Alabot is indeed an interesting startup to watch out for. Give alabot a spin and share your comments. Are they rightly timed for the Indian market?

By the way, you can also have fun with the bot by asking questions like “what is India”, “who is <your name>”, “go F@#%…”

Alabot recently partnered with mobile-worx to launch intelligent sms search which will enable users to search for mobile content, local business directories, local deals, train / flight tickets, hotel deals and movie tickets for major cities in India.

On a lighter note, Alabot reminds me of the Rahul Bose starrer, Ctrl Alt Del (watch the pirated copy), where loner Rahul Bose who is frustrated of life and is planning to commit suicide, ends up falling in love with a call center girl (or her voice?), who later turned out to be a bot..oh well, the alabot!
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