Bot Building

Working with the User Intent Node

As a bot developer, you typically create a task to resolve one primary user intent. Yet, user conversations can branch into related intents (follow-up or sub-intents) as a part of the primary intent. Let’s take a look this sample conversation for a Book Flights bot: Bot: Hi, how may I…

Creating a Bot

The Bot Builder provides a web-based tool with a repeatable process to design, develop, test and deploy smart chatbots at enterprise scale. You can do all this even without the code, custom software, significant server space, or major changes to your infrastructure. A typical Bot development lifecycle includes the following…

Managing Dialogs

Your bot can have many dialog tasks with related components. You can use the Dialog Editor to create, review, and edit a single dialog task for a bot. However, to better visualize and understand relationships and settings for all dialog tasks in a bot, you should use the Manage Components…

Working with the Message (Bot Response) Nodes

The Message node can be used to deliver a message to the user. Message nodes commonly follow an API, web service call, or webhook event to define their results as a formatted response. Bot responses can be formatted as follows: Plain text: Type a message in plain text. You can…

Enabling 2-way SSL for Service nodes

2-way SSL authentication is a certificate-based mutual authentication protocol that refers to two parties authenticating each other by verifying the provided digital certificate so that both parties are assured of the others' identity. It refers to a client (web browser or client application) authenticating themselves to a server (website or…

Defining Connections & Transitions

Node Types The following Nodes can be added to Dialog Tasks based upon your requirements: User Intent Node The user intent to be identified by the platform based on the user utterance. Every dialog will have one root intent with any number of sub-intents. For more information, see Working with…

Design

Before you jump in to develop a Bot, it would be a good idea to spend some time in understanding what the Bot would be and how it would help you and your business. This understanding would bring clarity and efficiency to the Bot development. Chatbots are artificial intelligence systems…

Working with Composite Entities

Composite Entities help you capture multiple entity values in a user utterance. These multiple entity values can be optional and can come in any order in the user utterance. Example: Car Sales Bot: Consider the sales inquiries to car sales. Typical queries can be of the form: ‘I am interested…

Supported Entity Types

The Entity Type provides the NLP Interpreter with the expected type of data from a user utterance to enhance recognition and system performance.  The Kore.ai NLP interpreter extracts the entity from the user utterance. If the user does not enter a required entity, you can define a Bot Response node…

Implementing Custom Authentication

You can implement custom authentication for your bot by providing URL from the service node to an external application that manages the authentication. The platform provides the necessary functionality to handle successful and failed authentication scenarios and manage the corresponding task flows. Bot Builder mechanism to implement custom authentication involves…
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