A Bot That Recognizes an Intent and Filling a Slot

In the next exercise, you will create a custom chatbot that recognizes the intent, named GetQuote, in order to get a market price quote for a given ticker symbol. The bot will prompt the user for the value of the ticker symbol that the user is interested in, until the slot is filled. You will also learn how to state the intent and fill the slot in the same utterance. This chatbot can be tested via a conversational interface.

Exercise 4.01: Creating a Bot That Will Recognize an Intent and Fill a Slot

In this exercise, we will create and test an Amazon Lex-based bot with a custom intent and slot. The steps that have to be performed to create a bot with a custom intent and slot are as follows:

1. The first step is to navigate to Amazon Lex service from the Amazon Management Console. Usually, this entails going to aws.amazon.com, then My account, and then clicking AWS Management Console.
2. You can select Services by clicking...