TORONTO, Aug. 11, 2016 /CNW/ - Breaking Data Corp.
(TSXV: BKD) (the "Company" or "Breaking Data") today
announced that it has launched its new BreakingSports bot on
Facebook Messenger.
The BreakingSports bot for Messenger provides functionality
equivalent to the BreakingSports application, as well as the most
advanced conversational interface for querying sports current
season statistics. Users are able to ask questions and receive
answers from the BreakingSports bot using the same natural
conversational language, as if they were asking a friend the
question.
The BreakingSports bot supports a full set of functionality that
is equivalent to the BreakingSports application for NFL, MLB, NBA
and NHL with support for other sports expected shortly. Complete
configuration is achieved directly within Facebook messenger
BreakingSports bot. The BreakingSports bot allows users to receive
personalized news based on their chosen filters (scores, injuries,
roster moves etc.) and subscriptions for teams and/or players.
To start a conversation with the BreakingSports bot, users
simply search and add "BreakingSports" to people and groups in
Messenger. A tutorial allows users to familiarize themselves with
the custom features of the bot. Once configured, users receive
Messenger notification for news based on their personalized
subscriptions and filters.
Unlike other sports bots, BreakingSports users can interact
directly with the BreakingSports bot to ask in natural language
such things as current season statistics, standings, schedule,
scores, bio information for players, team and league wide
rankings, making the BreakingSports bot the most advanced AI
powered sports bot available today.
"We are constantly pursuing ways to simplify the distribution of
time sensitive sports information. Messenger is the messaging app
of choice for more than a billion users each month and we are very
excited to bring an application of our advanced AI technology
through BreakingSports bot to such a great audience," said
Marvin Igelman, CEO of Breaking Data
Corp. "We have been involved in the Artificial intelligence and
Natural Language Processing sectors for some time now and we are
thrilled that Facebook has made this exciting new platform
available to the developer community. With the bot we now are able
to answer current sports questions and provide users with our
Breaking Sports app functionality and customization on Messenger,
giving users the best sports bot AI available."
About Breaking Data Corp.
Breaking Data Corp. is a
technology provider of semantic search, machine learning and
natural language processing ("NLP"). The Company's technology
platform has many practical applications, in multiple business and
consumer verticals that are immersed in massive media and data rich
settings. The Company's showcase app, BreakingSports,
utilizes semantic machine learning and NLP to track social media in
a fully automated, real-time manner for significant sports
information and events and distributes summarized information
through real-time push notifications to consumers. The
Company also enables mobile application providers to generate
revenue into their apps via its "Poynt-Enabled" SDK and owns Poynt,
an award winning local mobile search app. Find out more at
breakingdatacorp.com.
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SOURCE Breaking Data Corp.