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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)

Identifying the name of a person, place, and company using LUIS

In this step, you will learn how to identify the intent in a sentence. Identifying intent is very important, and helps you to understand what users want to do with your bot. Once you know the intent, you can interpret the sentence based on it and identify the actions from it:

  1. After logging in to LUIS at luis.ai, create an app for your IntentProcessing. To do that, click on New App and select New Application:
  1. Enter the name of your application, the usage as Bot, and select a category. Finally, click on the Add App button:

  1. After the successful creation of the app, open it and click on the + icon of the Intents section from the left side menu:
  1. Enter a name for your intent and click on the Save button:
  1. Now, add a custom entity, and from the left side menu, click on the + icon of Entity and enter Name:
  1. Repeat the above step for the company...