Guided Hackathon on NLP & Chatbot Development
Build Real NLP Applications & Chatbots in Just 18 Hours!
Transform Your AI Skills Through a High-Intensity, Fully Hands-On Hackathon
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Chatbots are at the heart of modern AI applications—from virtual assistants and customer support systems to automated content analysis and language translation.
This Guided Hackathon is a fast-paced, mentor-driven program designed to help participants build working NLP and chatbot projects within hours, not months.
You’ll learn to preprocess text, apply machine learning algorithms, work with sentiment analysis, fetch live tweets, build multilingual chatbots, and deploy your own intelligent conversational agent.
Perfect for students, beginners, and tech enthusiasts—this hackathon delivers maximum learning with real outcomes.
Why Join This Hackathon?
- 100% Practical & Hands-On: No long theory sessions—this is a pure build-as-you-learn hackathon.
- Build 4–6 Real Projects: Including text classification, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and chatbots.
- Multilingual Chatbot Development: Create conversational bots in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Bangla, and more.
- Work With Real APIs: Fetch live data from Twitter and analyze it using machine learning.
- Learn Industry Tools: NLTK, TextBlob, Word2Vec, gensim, Machine Translation modules.
- Beginner Friendly: You only need basic Python knowledge—we guide you through everything else.
- Gain Portfolio-Ready Projects: Perfect for resumes, placements, and internships.
Skills You Will Learn:
NLP Skills
- Tokenization, Stemming, Lemmatization
- POS Tagging
- N-gram analysis
- Feature extraction (TF-IDF)
- Sentiment analysis
- Topic modeling (LDA)
- Word embeddings (Word2Vec)
- Machine translation
Chatbot Skills
- Simple rule-based chatbots
- NLP-based chatbots
- Multilingual chatbots
- Training custom chatbot datasets
- Integrating chatbots into applications
Machine Learning Skills
- Text Classification (Naïve Bayes)
- Data preprocessing for text
- Model evaluation
Python & API Skills
- Python scripting
- Using NLP libraries
- Working with Twitter API
- Integrating NLP models into applications
Who Can Join This Course?
This hackathon is designed for:
- Engineering students (CSE, IT, ECE)
- MCA / BCA / B.Sc / M.Sc Students
- Faculty members & researchers
- AI & ML enthusiasts
- Anyone who wants to build NLP projects quickly
Career Opportunities After This Hackathon
Participants gain foundational skills for:
- NLP Engineer
- Chatbot Developer
- Machine Learning Engineer
- AI Developer
- Data Scientist (NLP)
- Automation Engineer
- Research Associate (AI/ML)
- and open pathways to advanced AI/ML specializations.
Hackathon Curriculum (With Hands-On Labs)
Session 1: Introduction to NLP & Chatbots
- Basics of NLP, NLU, NLG
- TF-IDF & Naïve Bayes
- Text classification fundamentals
- Chatbot architecture overview
Hands-On Labs:
- Build first TF-IDF vector
- Implement Naïve Bayes classifier
- Explore sample chatbot demos
Session 2: Python for NLP + Text Processing
- Python for NLP (NLP libraries)
- Tokenization, Stemming, Lemmatization
- POS tagging
- Word2Vec embeddings
- N-gram analysis
Hands-On Labs:
- Preprocess text dataset
- Train Word2Vec model
- Build unigram/bigram models
- Create topic models using LDA
Session 3: Sentiment Analysis & Machine Translation
- Sentiment analysis concepts
- Using Twitter API to collect data
- Machine translation basics
Hands-On Labs:
- Fetch live tweets
- Build sentiment analysis model
- Translate sentences using TextBlob
Session 4: Building Chatbots (Project Session)
- Rule-based chatbot
- Chatbot APIs & frameworks
- Multilingual chatbot development
- Training and testing custom bot models
Hands-On Labs:
- Train simple chatbot kernel
- Build chatbot using ChatterBot API
- Build local language chatbot (Hindi/Tamil/Telugu/etc.)
- Integrate chatbot into application (web/GUI)
Capstone Project: Intelligent Multilingual Chatbot Assistant
Project Goal:
Build a complete intelligent chatbot capable of:
- Understanding natural language
- Responding with meaningful answers
- Detecting user sentiment
- Translating text
- Conversing in multiple Indian languages
- Handling FAQs, greetings & custom commands
- Logging and analyzing chat conversations
Tech Stack:
- Python
- NLTK, TextBlob, gensim
- TF-IDF + Naïve Bayes
- Word embeddings
- ChatterBot API
- Translation API
Deliverables:
- Working chatbot application
- Custom trained dataset
- Source code
- Architecture document
- Demo video (optional)
- Presentation slides
Contact us for more details:
Phone: +91-8341957746 / +91-7842670309
Email: electrocloudlabs@gmail.com
Website: www.electrocloudlabs.com
