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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

Creating a set of conversational intents

The first thing we need to do is identify the set of intents we want to support in this conversational agent. An intent is just an action that the end user may express, and that we want the application to support. Identifying the set of intents is actually pretty straightforward and can be derived from virtually any existing banking web application. 

This is a pretty common example of a typical set of actions you can perform on a banking application:

Here is the list of banking services that you might find on the Web:

  • ACCOUNTS: Information on what accounts you have, and their balances, along with other information about the account
  • MESSAGES: Where you would receive any notifications from the bank
  • FUNDS TRANSFER: Enables you to move money between your own accounts
  • MEMBER TO MEMBER: Supports transferring money from your account to...
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