You're reading from Conversational AI with Rasa Build, test, and deploy AI-powered, enterprise-grade virtual assistants and chatbots

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077057

Length 264 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Rasa

Concepts

Chatbots

Authors (2):

Xiaoquan Kong

Guan Wang

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Rasa Framework

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Chatbots and the Rasa Framework FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Natural Language Understanding in Rasa

4. Chapter 3: Rasa Core

5. Section 2: Rasa in Action

6. Chapter 4: Handling Business Logic

7. Chapter 5: Working with Response Selector to Handle Chitchat and FAQs

8. Chapter 6: Knowledge Base Actions to Handle Question Answering

9. Chapter 7: Entity Roles and Groups for Complex Named Entity Recognition

10. Chapter 8: Working Principles and Customization of Rasa

11. Section 3: Best Practices

12. Chapter 9: Testing and Production Deployment

13. Chapter 10: Conversation-Driven Development and Interactive Learning

14. Chapter 11: Debugging, Optimization, and Community Ecosystem

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Learning by doing – building a knowledge-based music query chatbot

We have designed this section to enhance your understanding of knowledge base actions. We will create a QA bot based on a homemade toy-level knowledge base. This QA robot will answer questions regarding music: songs, albums, and singers.

What are the features of our bot?

In this section, we will introduce the characteristics of our robot. Its features can be divided into two types: one is the unconstrained query, and the other is the constrained query (or with filter conditions). The former does not make any constraints or filters on the query object, such as list all singers. The latter has clear constraints, such as List all-male singers born in 1980, where born in 1980 and male are both constraints.

To begin, let's discuss the unconstrained query.

Querying the list of objects and asking for the attributes of the specified object

Example #1: Search for songs and ask for the album attributes...

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You're reading from Conversational AI with Rasa Build, test, and deploy AI-powered, enterprise-grade virtual assistants and chatbots

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Learning by doing – building a knowledge-based music query chatbot

What are the features of our bot?

Querying the list of objects and asking for the attributes of the specified object

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