Chatbots are another example of an application that lends itself very well to RNN models. Figure Sequence tagging with traditional LSTM shows an example of a chatbot application built with the Seq2Seq model, which was described in the preceding section. Chatbots can be understood as a special case of machine translation, where the target language is replaced with a vocabulary of responses for each possible question in the chatbot knowledge base:
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