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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)

Natural speech and Intent processing bot using Microsoft Cognitive Services

As LUIS is a new concept, we will go through one more project to understand the concepts better. This project is for understanding how to use Cortana Intelligence Services and Rich Text Messaging technology. This bot identifies the concepts and actions in the text that is sent to the bot with part-of-speech tagging, finds phrases and concepts using natural language parsers, and returns all the identified Intents, which are created and trained in the custom LUIS app. For example, if you say Hi John, am going to New York tonight, the bot will return part-of-speech tagging as well as parsing data for natural speech and Intent processing to know the name and location:

  • Name: John
  • Place: New York

Whether you're mining customer feedback, interpreting user commands, or consuming web text, understanding the structure of the text is a critical...