Azure bot Service February 19, 2018

What are Chat bots Today’s presentation will cover Chat Bots A Chat Bot is interactive Chat Bots can use language understanding to interpret basic phrases Azure Bot Service is a platform that accelerates bot's development

What we are covering In today’s presentation an basic echo bot will be demonstrated An echo bot will respond your input by echoing your input A Luis bot will also be demonstrated A Luis bot can respond to your input by interpreting your intent

Using the Azure Portal In the Azure Portal Click on New Resource Select AI + Cognitive Services Select Web App Bot

A bot is a web service that has a rest endpoint Building a bot A bot is a web service that has a rest endpoint Conversations with a bot start with a Post to an ApiController

How Bots Work

Look at the code The Connector uses an Activity object to pass information back and forth between bot and channel There is a state per session and a state per user. The most common type of activity is message

Basic Echo bot We are going to first take a look at a message activity Dialogs are used to model a conversation The activity will be send to an EchoDialog Next we are going to take a look at a conversation update activity

Luis Bot LUIS is a Language Understanding Intelligent Service, which offers a  way of adding language understanding to applications We start with a LUIS App in the LUIS portal Language understanding is accomplished by Intents

Look at the Code Activities are the same as before We use the message activity This time the activity will be send to a BasicLuisDialog In the BasicLuisDialog, we need to add the OrderPizza Intent The LuisDialog shows what Intent was reached

Resources Language Understanding Home at https://www.luis.ai/home PowerPoint slides are on http://schroederconsultingllc.com/ Projects are on https://github.com/carolynlschroeder