Dr. Boris Galitsky has contributed linguistic and machine learning technologies to Silicon Valley startups for the last 25 years, as well as eBay and Oracle, where he is currently an architect of a digital assistant project. An author of two computer science books, 150+ publications and 15+ patents, he is now researching how discourse analysis improves search relevance and supports dialogue management. In his previous book, Dr. Galitsky presented a foundation of autistic reasoning which shed a light on how chatbots should facilitate conversations. Boris is an Apache committer to OpenNLP where he created the OpenNLP.Similarity component that is a basis for chatbot development.