Building a chatbot is different from building a traditional application. The mindset and considerations when developing a chatbot are not the same. It will take some getting used to because it is so different from a regular application.
To have a natural conversation with a chatbot is not easy. After all, you need to make the chatbot talk like a human being. However, with the advancement in AI technologies such as language understanding, you can create more natural conversations.
In the post, Overview of Dialogs for Bot Framework v4, it covered what a dialog is and how it works. In addition, it covered the different types of prompt and what they are used for. For this post, I am going to be going over an example of using a […]
One of the main building blocks to creating a conversation is by using a Dialog defined in the bot framework v4. Dialogs can process inbound Activities and generate outbound responses. In addition, business logic can run directly or indirectly within the Dialogs.
Creating a chatbot that is capable of a meaningful conversation will require language understanding (LUIS). However, if you are using LUIS and then parsing the response yourself, you might notice that it can get complicated pretty fast. This is because the response from LUIS is dynamic since the response is based […]
It is usually not enough to use only one cognitive service if you want to create a great user experience for a chatbot. It takes multiple cognitive services such as natural language processing and questions and answer.
In the post, How to Setup a Chatbot Development Environment for Microsoft Bot Framework Version 4, you generated a basic bot project. In this post, I am going to go over some of the key areas for that codebase. If you are already familiar with bot framework v4 then this post […]
A chatbot is an emerging application of AI (Artificial Intelligence) that is becoming more common nowadays. Maybe you used one and thought it was useful and want to try to build one yourself. Maybe your company wants to have a chatbot to answer some of the commonly asked questions. Regardless […]
