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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

By : Kishore Gaddam
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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

By: Kishore Gaddam

Overview of this book

Bots help users to use the language as a UI and interact with the applications from any platform. This book teaches you how to develop real-world bots using Microsoft Bot Framework. The book starts with setting up the Microsoft Bot Framework development environment and emulator, and moves on to building the first bot using Connector and Builder SDK. Explore how to register, connect, test, and publish your bot to the Slack, Skype, and Facebook Messenger platforms. Throughout this book, you will build different types of bots from simple to complex, such as a weather bot, a natural speech and intent processing bot, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) bot for a bank, a facial expression recognition bot, and more from scratch. These bots were designed and developed to teach you concepts such as text detection, implementing LUIS dialogs, Cortana Intelligence Services, third-party authentication, Rich Text format, Bot State Service, and microServices so you can practice working with the standard development tools such as Visual Studio, Bot Emulator, and Azure.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)

Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) is one of the services in Microsoft Cognitive Services provided by Microsoft. As mentioned earlier, natural language is a fundamental element in developing bot applications. As a result, the technology industry has seen a direct correlation between the evolution of bot platforms and NLP platforms. Although the evolution of bot technologies has been predominantly driven by messaging platform providers such as Slack or Facebook, the main advancements in NLP technologies seem to be coming from cloud platform providers such as Microsoft. As a result, to take advantage of the NLP and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) algorithms, most bot developers spend time integrating their bot applications with NLP services provided by platforms such as LUIS from Microsoft. LUIS can process natural language using pre-built or custom...