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Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson

You're reading from   Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson Build smart applications using artificial intelligence as a service

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478298
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tanmay Bakshi Tanmay Bakshi
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Robert High Robert High
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Background, Transition, and the Future of Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. Can Machines Converse Like Humans? 3. Computer Vision 4. This Is How Computers Speak 5. Expecting Empathy from Dumb Computers 6. Language - How Watson Deals with NL 7. Structuring Unstructured Content Through Watson 8. Putting It All Together with Watson 9. Future - Cognitive Computing and You 10. Another Book You May Enjoy

Building a dialog

To make your application a little more interesting, you can preface the interaction with a little greeting, and some sort of acknowledgement. We'll do that now.

You can introduce a dialog by pressing the Dialog tab of the main workspace screen and press the Create button. This will begin with a very basic dialog flow already filled out for you—including what to say to get things going, and how to respond in the case the user utters something completely off-topic:

Press on the Welcome card and an edit screen will come up on the right. You can modify the text that Watson will respond with, for example, change it to Welcome to ABC Bank. What can I do for you?:

Now, let's provide an interesting response if the user wants to pay their power bill. Press the Add node button, and in the If bot recognizes: field enter #Pay-Bills, press the + sign to...

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