Building a bot using language Understanding

One area where we see Language Services used frequently is chat bots. In this chapter, we will use Bot Framework Composer to build a chat that calls LUIS. We will use this solution as the application for our previous example of the Content Moderator service from Chapter 11.

LUIS is the precursor to the Language Service described in this chapter. At the time of writing, Bot Framework still uses LUIS, and there should be a new version of Bot Framework that supports the Language Service in the coming months.

Figure 14.9 – A diagram of the services and data flow that use Bot Framework and LUIS

So, let’s jump in and get started on creating the project to build our bot.

Creating our bot project

When you launch the Bot Framework Composer application, you will come to a welcome page:

1. Let’s start by creating a new project, as shown in the following screenshot:

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