Whether it is an interaction with a service, a website or a pre-screening process, Bots (or digital conversations) are rapidly becoming a part our digital experience. There are common problems that all bot developers face from intelligent interactions to language understanding to platform integration. We will talk about common patterns to design, build and connect bots that will engage your users wherever they are. We will examine patterns for interaction and introduce integration with APIs and natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
This presentation illustrates the new trend of Bots (chatbots) from an enterprise perspective. The content covers some of the key bot platforms in the market such as Microsoft Bot Framework, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Kik and others.
Azure as a Chatbot Service: From Purpose To Production With A Cloud Bot Archi...Paul Prae
The tooling for building chatbots has exploded. Putting chatbots into production is now easier than ever. In this presentation, I focus on how you can use Azure Bot Service, Azure Search, and Cosmos DB to create a scalable backend for your chatbot. By using a fully managed, serverless architecture with continuous deployment, you can get your chatbot up and running quickly. Check out this deck to learn how to combine cloud computing and artificial intelligence so you can help humans and machines achieve more together.
Learn more at http://www.neona.chat
To Make Your Chatbot Smart, You Need to Feed It Right: How to Write for Chatb...LavaConConference
Chatbots are becoming an increasingly popular delivery channel for many types of content, including customer support, marketing, and pre-sales. To make chatbots scalable, helpful, and smoothly integrated into the content ecosystem of your organization, you need to feed the chatbots with the right content prepared in the right way.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to write content for chatbots in a way that lets the chatbots find the relevant content and precisely match it to the user’s request.
In this session, attendee’s will learn:
How chatbots work: approaches to recognizing user’s intent, handling incomplete requests, and finding matching content
How the content needs to be organized, structured, and written to be discoverable by the chatbot
How to not create an isolated, chatbot-specific content that would be available just for the chatbot
What makes content undiscoverable by the chatbot and makes the chatbot to give wrong or irrelevant answers
How to handle situations when the chatbot is unsure which content should be provided to the user
How to handle content variations (for example, product- or audience- specific)
In this talk, I consider various channels of social media and consider how they impact software engineering. I then focus on what the channels enable (e.g. peer production, social programmer) and how these may change the laws and assumptions of software evolution.
Build Your Own iPod/Phone/Pad App Using FMtouchYTH
"Build Your Own iPod/Phone/Pad App Using FMtouch" was presented at Sex::Tech 2011 by Eli Rosenberg of Department of Epidemiology Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.
This presentation illustrates the new trend of Bots (chatbots) from an enterprise perspective. The content covers some of the key bot platforms in the market such as Microsoft Bot Framework, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Kik and others.
Azure as a Chatbot Service: From Purpose To Production With A Cloud Bot Archi...Paul Prae
The tooling for building chatbots has exploded. Putting chatbots into production is now easier than ever. In this presentation, I focus on how you can use Azure Bot Service, Azure Search, and Cosmos DB to create a scalable backend for your chatbot. By using a fully managed, serverless architecture with continuous deployment, you can get your chatbot up and running quickly. Check out this deck to learn how to combine cloud computing and artificial intelligence so you can help humans and machines achieve more together.
Learn more at http://www.neona.chat
To Make Your Chatbot Smart, You Need to Feed It Right: How to Write for Chatb...LavaConConference
Chatbots are becoming an increasingly popular delivery channel for many types of content, including customer support, marketing, and pre-sales. To make chatbots scalable, helpful, and smoothly integrated into the content ecosystem of your organization, you need to feed the chatbots with the right content prepared in the right way.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to write content for chatbots in a way that lets the chatbots find the relevant content and precisely match it to the user’s request.
In this session, attendee’s will learn:
How chatbots work: approaches to recognizing user’s intent, handling incomplete requests, and finding matching content
How the content needs to be organized, structured, and written to be discoverable by the chatbot
How to not create an isolated, chatbot-specific content that would be available just for the chatbot
What makes content undiscoverable by the chatbot and makes the chatbot to give wrong or irrelevant answers
How to handle situations when the chatbot is unsure which content should be provided to the user
How to handle content variations (for example, product- or audience- specific)
In this talk, I consider various channels of social media and consider how they impact software engineering. I then focus on what the channels enable (e.g. peer production, social programmer) and how these may change the laws and assumptions of software evolution.
Build Your Own iPod/Phone/Pad App Using FMtouchYTH
"Build Your Own iPod/Phone/Pad App Using FMtouch" was presented at Sex::Tech 2011 by Eli Rosenberg of Department of Epidemiology Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.
Do Try This at Home! Extend IBM Connections using IBM WorklightProlifics
DO Try This at Home! Extend IBM Connections using IBM Worklight
Speakers:
Handly Cameron, Prolifics
Smriti Kapuria , Prolifics
Abstract: In this session you will learn how to extend IBM Connections and build a mobile app using IBM Worklight. Come see a live demo as we show you how to construct a mobile app and make use of the Social Business Toolkit, OpenSocial, and REST APIs. Experts from Prolifics will cover techniques for integrating with IBM Connections and mobile app construction. We will walk you through the steps of developing a mobile app in Worklight and using Worklight adapters to add social features through the Connections API. After this session, you will be ready to start building your own app. Both Worklight Studio and IBM Greenhouse are free to use, so you CAN try this at home!
On March 1st, 2017 Mitchell & Whale presented their experience with the Chatbot to industry peers at the Insurance Canada Broker Forum (ICBF2017) in Toronto, ON.
Echatbots can help your website visitors to find what they are looking for. Any questions they have can immediately be answered, resulting in more leads and sales for your business.
Solvion Trendwerkstatt - Microsoft Azure + BotsHolzerKerstin
In der Solvion Trendwerkstatt erfahren die Teilnehmer alle Trends rund um Microsoft Azure, Artikficial Intelligence und Bots. Microsoft MVP Stephan Bisser leitet durch den Workshop.
ID400 - What's New and Coming in IBM Connections 2014 #IBMConnectLuis Benitez
This presentation was delivered at IBM Connect 2014 and shows what's going to be delivered in IBM Connections in 2014. As usual, things will be delivered to the cloud first and at some point in the year we'll take the cloud base and deliver that to our on premises customers. Content and design subject to change at any time without notice.
Design Document written partially for an assignment as a graduate student at the University of Southern California for the Techniques in Data Visualization course I took with wireframes used in the creation for an actual web application.
Cloud client darwin information cloud browserYing LI
Information Technology=I+T
Cloud means pervasive T, low cost and high efficiency
Cloud Client means pervasive I, brings personal and social user experience at the client of clouds
Chatbot development workshop with the Microsoft Bot Frameworkgjuljo
Develop a chatbot from zero to hero using the Microsoft Bot Framework in Node.js.
Full day workshop with step by step exercises (code on GitHub), including unit test, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
Presentation for the Bot Revolution lab we gave at Codemotion Milan 2016.
This lab is a hands-on workshop for the Microsoft Bot Framework, with step-by-step exercises.
The source code is available at the following link:
https://github.com/vflorusso/botrevolution/blob/master/README.md
Do Try This at Home! Extend IBM Connections using IBM WorklightProlifics
DO Try This at Home! Extend IBM Connections using IBM Worklight
Speakers:
Handly Cameron, Prolifics
Smriti Kapuria , Prolifics
Abstract: In this session you will learn how to extend IBM Connections and build a mobile app using IBM Worklight. Come see a live demo as we show you how to construct a mobile app and make use of the Social Business Toolkit, OpenSocial, and REST APIs. Experts from Prolifics will cover techniques for integrating with IBM Connections and mobile app construction. We will walk you through the steps of developing a mobile app in Worklight and using Worklight adapters to add social features through the Connections API. After this session, you will be ready to start building your own app. Both Worklight Studio and IBM Greenhouse are free to use, so you CAN try this at home!
On March 1st, 2017 Mitchell & Whale presented their experience with the Chatbot to industry peers at the Insurance Canada Broker Forum (ICBF2017) in Toronto, ON.
Echatbots can help your website visitors to find what they are looking for. Any questions they have can immediately be answered, resulting in more leads and sales for your business.
Solvion Trendwerkstatt - Microsoft Azure + BotsHolzerKerstin
In der Solvion Trendwerkstatt erfahren die Teilnehmer alle Trends rund um Microsoft Azure, Artikficial Intelligence und Bots. Microsoft MVP Stephan Bisser leitet durch den Workshop.
ID400 - What's New and Coming in IBM Connections 2014 #IBMConnectLuis Benitez
This presentation was delivered at IBM Connect 2014 and shows what's going to be delivered in IBM Connections in 2014. As usual, things will be delivered to the cloud first and at some point in the year we'll take the cloud base and deliver that to our on premises customers. Content and design subject to change at any time without notice.
Design Document written partially for an assignment as a graduate student at the University of Southern California for the Techniques in Data Visualization course I took with wireframes used in the creation for an actual web application.
Cloud client darwin information cloud browserYing LI
Information Technology=I+T
Cloud means pervasive T, low cost and high efficiency
Cloud Client means pervasive I, brings personal and social user experience at the client of clouds
Chatbot development workshop with the Microsoft Bot Frameworkgjuljo
Develop a chatbot from zero to hero using the Microsoft Bot Framework in Node.js.
Full day workshop with step by step exercises (code on GitHub), including unit test, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
Presentation for the Bot Revolution lab we gave at Codemotion Milan 2016.
This lab is a hands-on workshop for the Microsoft Bot Framework, with step-by-step exercises.
The source code is available at the following link:
https://github.com/vflorusso/botrevolution/blob/master/README.md
.NET Fest 2018. Олександр Краковецький. Microsoft AI: створюємо програмні ріш...NETFest
Штучний інтелект, беззаперечно, є трендом цього року. Когнітивні сервіси, цифрові асистенти, глобальні ініціативи трансформації бізнесу та соціальної сфери, машинне навчання та чатботи - все це дуже активно розвивається. Компанія Microsoft надає розробникам великий вибір різноманітних інструментів та технології (в тому числі у зв'язці з продуктами інших компаній), які дозволяють будувати "розумне" програмне забезпечення, а також трансформувати бізнес процеси. В доповіді на реальних прикладах ви дізнаєтесь, яким чином зробити ваше програмне забезпечення більш розумним, які кращі практики використання тих чи інших інструментів та до яких глобальних ініціатив ви можете приєднатись, будучи спеціалістом зі штучного інтелекту.
Building a social network website from scratchElinext
In 2020, there were 3.6 billion social media users worldwide. Half of the world's population was active on social media before the pandemic. In the last two years, our online presence has only strengthened. Social websites are an essential part of our daily life. TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube crashes frighten people more than ever. So, creating a new social site could be a profitable project. But where to start? Learn in our new guide.
Agenda for the month included:
-What’s new for developers
-Why build LoB apps on Microsoft Teams
-What problems can you solve?
-Teams app building blocks
-LoB App demo
-Getting started resources
-What’s coming for developers
-Q&A
Introduction to Microsoft Viva and the Employee Experience Platform with Joel...Joel Oleson
Microsoft announced Viva in February 2021, it is a movement toward employee experience that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced primarily through Microsoft Teams. Viva fosters a culture where people and teams are empowered to be their best from anywhere. Viva itself has four main components: – Viva Connections – as the enabler for plugging your SharePoint Intranet into Teams formerly known as Teams Home Site App. – Viva Topics – one of the products from the Project Cortex initiative. It is focused on connecting knowledge and experts. – Viva Insights – delivers focus on employee engagement with consideration for health and wellbeing. – Viva Learning is an aggregation of your skilling across the enterprise with LMS platform integration and just-in-time delivery in the your Teams. We’ll dive into each of these tools and help you better understand availability, licensing, and enterprise positioning and roadmap. Audience: Marketing, Communications, HR IT, IT Managers, Directors, Microsoft 365 Admins, and Teams Administrators Level: 100 & 200 : Introduction and Assumes Basic Microsoft Teams Experience
Microsoft Teams is all about increasing your productivity in an integrated workspace that truly empowers businesses and individuals to do more and be more. One of the unique way Teams fulfils this vision is by surfacing workflows that matter to you as apps right inside the workspace. Learn why you should care and go about building immersive apps on the Microsoft Teams platform.
Artificial Intelligence as an Interface - How Conversation Bots Are Changing ...Sage Franch
With the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence, chat bots have become increasingly used as core elements of our interactions with technology. Ranging from simple FAQ bots to advanced human-like conversational AI, chat bots are changing the way we use, view, and build technology. In this lecture, Microsoft Tech Evangelist Sage Franch will explore today’s ecosystem of intelligent bots, detail the process of building a chat bot from concept to training and deployment, and take a glimpse into the future of conversations as a platform.
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A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
7. { Your Code }
REST Endpoint
Direct Line Protocol
Conversational and
Business Logic
Canvas Aware Context
Sensitive
SDK
Bot Builder SDK
Platform Platform Services
HTTP
REST Endpoint
AI
Intelligent Tools
8. Bot web service
Your bot code
Entity
Extraction
Speech
Vision/Face
Natural
Language
Translation
+ Microsoft Cognitive Services
Search
Emotion
Knowledge
API
…
Message input <> output
State Management
Bot Connector Service
Conversation Canvas/Channels
……
…
Other services, APIs,
Databases, Azure Machine
Learning, Azure Search,
etc…
Bot Builder SDK
Web Chat
Direct Line…
Email
Facebook
GroupMe
Kik
Skype
Slack
Telegram
Twilio (SMS)
An x-ray of a typical bot
Bot Builder SDK
Your bot code goes here
9. Your Bot Framework Bot
Bot Connector Bot DirectoryBot Builder SDKs
Connect your bot(s) to
text/sms, Office 365 mail,
Skype, Slack, and other
services.
Build great dialogs within
your Node.js or C# bot
Try, use, and add published
bots to the world’s top
conversation experiences
• Register, connect, publish and
manage your bot through the
bot dashboard
• Message routing
• Automatic translation to 30+
languages
• User and state management
• Embeddable web chat control
• Debugging tools
• Open source SDK on Github
• From simple built-in prompts
and command dialogs to
simple to use yet sophisticated
‘FormFlow’ dialogs
• Libraries, samples and tools to
make a great conversationalist
• Chat emulator
• Leverage related services
available in Cognitive Services
• Public directory of bots
registered and approved with
Bot Framework
• Users can try your bot from the
directory via the web chat
control
• Users can discover and add
your bot to the channels on
which it is configured
14. QnA Maker
Build, train and publish
Q&A bots based on existing FAQs
https://www.qnamaker.ai
15. The problem
Language understanding in human-computer interaction is:
Technically
challenging
It’s exceedingly difficult to enable a
computer to understand what a
person wants and to find the pieces
of information that are relevant to
their intent.
Costly
to implement
Building and maintaining machine
learning systems requires a large
investment of time, money and
engineering resources
Often
domain specific
In the past, building your own
machine learned models often
required assistance of a team of
data scientists that would customize
the models to the specific domain.
16. Speech Intent
Recognition
Text to Speech
Conversion
Convert text to spoken audio
Speech
Recognition
Convert spoken audio to text
450 6th St.
San Francisco
Convert audio to intent
"450 sixth St in San
Francisco."
"For 50 six St San
Francisco."
"456th St San Francisco."
• State of the art algorithms to
process spoken language
• Voice Recognition – Converts
spoken audio to text
• Support for 18 languages
(28 locales)
• Voice Output – Synthesize
audio from Text
• Support for 9 languages
(17 locales)
• Powered by Bing, which is the
same backend for Xbox and
Cortana on Windows Phone
8.1 and Windows 10
Speech APIs
17. Determine intent and
detects entities
Seamless integration with
Speech Recognition
Learns over time
Use pre-built, world class
models from Bing and Cortana
Models work across devices
Intent: TextToSpeech
Content: headlines
Read me the
headlines
Play
yesterday’s
Daily Show
Intent: PauseDevice
DateTime.duration: 5 Minutes
Pause for
5 minutes
Intent: PlayEpisode
Content: Daily Show
DateTime.date: T-1 Day
18. LUIS is designed to enable you to
quickly deploy an HTTP endpoint that
will take the sentences you send it
and interpret them in terms of the
intention they convey and the key
entities that are present.
After your endpoint has processed a
few dozen interactions, LUIS begins
active learning. LUIS examines all the
utterances that have been sent to it,
and calls to your attention the ones
that it would like you to label.
LUIS relies on the cutting-edge
technologies developed and
incubated directly by Microsoft
Research that have been tried and
tested with hundreds of internal and
external customers all over the globe.
In addition to allowing you to build
your own applications, LUIS also
provides selected models from the
Microsoft Cortana personal assistant
as a pre-built application.
It learns and
adaptsIt is fast and easy It is innovative It uses pre-built
applications
Why LUIS?
19. LUIS offers a set of user-friendly tools
that completely abstract technical
complexity and get you up and
running with just a few steps.
This breakthrough feature enables
LUIS to examine all the utterances
that have been sent to it, critique its
own work, and ask for any corrections
in order to continually improve
accuracy.
LUIS is able to fulfill actions that were
triggered through a set of channels
(HTTP, news, stocks, etc.)
LUIS provides a way to add a prompt
question if user query is missing any
of the required parameters
Active learningEasy creation of
LU models Action fulfillment Dialog support
Key features
21. How LUIS works
Go to luis.ai:
Sign in with your Microsoft account (MSA). If you
don’t have MSA, you will have an option to create
one.
Get started by creating a New App and entering
some basic information.
Next, you will be presented with the Application
Editor Workspace that will allow you to create and
train your own language understanding model.
Create a New App1
22. How LUIS works
Intents:
Intents are actions that a user wants your app to
take or the information they would like to obtain.
Example intents could include getting weather,
booking tickets, adding a calendar entry or
operating a light fixture.
Add one or more of user intents that you expect
your app to handle by clicking + next to Intents
item in the in the left-hand panel of the Editor
Workspace.
Add intents and
entities2
X
23. How LUIS works
Entities:
Entities are real world objects such as persons,
locations, organizations, products, etc. that can be
denoted with a proper name. Entities can be abstract
or have a physical existence.
Entities can be generic (location, celebrity, datetime) or
more specific (Seattle, Satya Nadella, June)
Add one or more entities that you expect your app to
recognize by clicking + next to Entities item in the left-
hand panel of the Editor Workspace.
Several commonly used pre-built entities (e.g.
datetime, number) are also available to be added to
the app by clicking + next to Pre-built Entities.
Add intents and
entities2
X
24. How LUIS works
Seed the system with more
examples of utterances:
Enter more examples of queries that you expect your
users to make.
As you enter each one, you will need to:
• select the name of the correct intent from the dropdown
• label your entities that appear in each utterance by clicking on the
entity and choosing corresponding label from the list
• pre-built entities get automatically labeled in grey
The more examples you provide, the more accurate the
predictions.
Provide more
labeled examples3
X
25. Train your model4
Last train completed: 9/10/2016, 3:33:38 PM
How LUIS works
As you click Train at left
bottom corner of the page,
LUIS:
Generalizes from the examples you provided.
Uses logistic regression classifiers to recognize
intents.
Uses conditional random field to determine the
entities.
26. How LUIS works
Deploy the model to an
HTTP endpoint:
Click the Publish button in the upper left-hand
corner.
The URL that you see appear after a few moments
makes your model available as a web service.
Publish your model5
27. Activate model from your
application on any device:
Update the URL with the parameter
for the user query.
The response received from LUIS will
contain the list of detected intents
and entities together with the
confidence scores.
You can now use this information in
your app. For our example, we could
next call the weather service and
display the response in our app UI:
Use the model in
your application6
How LUIS works
X
What’s the weather in
Berlin
The weather is sunny
with a temperature of
88°F. (data provided by
Foreca http://www.foreca.com)
28. Bot web service
Your bot code
Entity
Extraction
Speech
Vision/Face
Natural
Language
Translation
+ Microsoft Cognitive Services
Search
Emotion
Knowledge
API
…
Message input <> output
State Management
Bot Connector Service
Conversation Canvas/Channels
……
…
Other services, APIs,
Databases, Azure Machine
Learning, Azure Search,
etc…
Bot Builder SDK
Web Chat
Direct Line…
Email
Facebook
GroupMe
Kik
Skype
Slack
Telegram
Twilio (SMS)
An x-ray of a typical bot
Bot Builder SDK
Your bot code goes here