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Bots are the New Apps: Building Bots with ASP.NET WebAPI & Language Understanding
The document discusses Microsoft's bot building capabilities using ASP.NET Web API and various intelligent tools, highlighting the bot framework's features for developing conversational and business logic applications. It emphasizes the importance of adaptability, user context, and composable controls while presenting tools for natural language understanding, payment integration, and improved analytics. The document also provides resources for getting started with bot development and mentions upcoming features in language understanding and bot federation.
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- 1. Nick Landry Senior TechnicalEvangelist – Microsoft activenick@microsoft.com Blog: AgeofMobility.com @ActiveNick | github.com/ActiveNick Bots are the New Apps: Building Bots with ASP.NET Web API & Language Understanding
- 5. TYPE TALK TAP BotBuilder Platform Services Intelligent Tools
- 6. { 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
- 7. Goals • Start Simple.Add Complexity. No dead-ends. • Bot adapts to the user, based on context • Composable and intelligent controls to manage complexity Bot Controls LUIS Query over database via Azure Search Form Filling QnA C# Customer’s Business Logic & DataBot Connector Direct Line What? • Tools for building REST Web Sites • Services to enrich • Mechanisms for receive events • Data to debug and analyze Why? • Implements standard protocols • Modeling conversations is hard. Tools help! • UI across multiple canvases is hard. Cards rock! • Language Understanding is hard • Common and well understood patterns
- 8. O N EB O T M U L T I P L E C A N V A S E S
- 9. O N EB O T M U L T I P L E C A N V A S E S Custom Skills Memory / Profile Speech Business Bots Bot Directory Bots in Bing Search LOB Bots IT Managed Integrated Auth
- 10. Demo: Let’s builda bot! Get started at https://www.botframework.com
- 11. Emotion Speaker Recognition Speech Custom Recognition Computer Vision Face Video microsoft.com/cognitive Linguistic Analysis Language Understanding BingSpell Check Entity Linking Knowledge Exploration Academic Knowledge Bing Image Search Bing Video Search Bing Web Search WebLM Text Analytics Recommendations Bing Autosuggest Bing News Search Translator https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/
- 12. Demo: Natural Language Understandingwith LUIS Get started at https://www.luis.ai
- 13. (*) Recognizers areopen-sourced. More New Features L A N G U A G E U N D E R S T A N D I N G Top Requested Features Production Staging and Versioning More Languages (Dutch, Korean, dialects) Increased Intent and Entity Limits 25 Customizable Prebuilt Domains Lists Improved Recognizers(*) Semantic Dictionaries Spell Checking
- 14. Predefined packages Bootstrap modelcreation Customizable! Pre-Built Domains Sports Weather Stock Contacts Calendar Restaurants Examples of Pre-Built Domains L A N G U A G E U N D E R S T A N D I N G Entertainment Fitness Home Automation Music Translation Movie Tickets
- 15. Adaptive Cards O PE N F R A M E W O R K M U L T I P L E C A N V A S E S Notification Microsoft Teams Skype Android iOS
- 16. Demo: Adaptive Cards Getstarted at https://adaptivecards.io/
- 17. Microsoft Seller Center Stripeis currently supported Visit Microsoft Seller Center Obtain MerchantID Start building Works across most major platforms Fast and simple payment experience Bring commerce capabilities to your Bot Read the integration guide for the Bot Framework.
- 18. SPEECH IN PROTOCOLS DirectLineSupport WebChat Control Cortana SPEECH IN SDKS SPEECH IN LUIS SSML Speech Friendly Prompts Conversation Management Modeled Conversations Common Model (Cortana, Bing Speech, Custom Speech Recognition) D E E P I N T E G R A T I O N A C R O S S T H E B O T F R A M E W O R K
- 19. H O LI S T I C B O T B U I L D I N G Fully Azure Integrated Conversational vs Business Logic Richly Tooled Design. Code. Deploy. Manage. Analyze. “One Stop Shop for building Bots” Data stays in a user’s subscription Improved Perf via colocation • Bot + Functions + LUIS Runtime SDK Unification Componentization and Reuse Highlights
- 20. Bot Builder Protocols & Services& Channels Bot Intelligence Azure Bot Service v2 Speech Support Ecosystem Integrations (Flow, PowerApps, ++) Bot Brain Bot Controls++ GA GA GA GA Analytics++ Regions++, Channels++ SDK V.Next Localization Adaptive Cards Bot Federation Compliance May Aug Nov Regions++, Languages++, Domains++ ML Dialogs Pattern Support Faster Training Multi- Developer Prebuilt Domains Speech Services++ Public Preview Private Preview
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- 22. Thank You! Slides areon Slideshare. Demos are on GitHub. Contact me and let me know what you build, I will be happy to help promote your bots. Blog: AgeofMobility.com Twitter: @ActiveNick Email: activenick@microsoft.com Apps: www.bigbaldapps.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/activenick GitHub: github.com/ActiveNick Slideshare: slideshare.net/ActiveNick