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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

You're reading from   Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework Creating intelligent conversational interfaces

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463104
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kishore Gaddam Kishore Gaddam
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Preface 1. Setting up Microsoft Bot Framework Dev Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing Your First Bot Using the Connector and Builder SDK 3. Developing WeatherBot Using Dialogs and LUIS 4. Natural Speech and Intent Processing Bot Using Microsoft Cognitive Services 5. Developing Bots Using LUIS Prompt Dialogs with State and Nearby Bot Using Custom APIs 6. Developing an IVR Bot for a Bank Using Advanced Microsoft Bot Framework Technologies 7. Intelligent Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework and Service Fabric 8. Developing Intelligent Facial Expression Identification Bot for IoT Using Azure and Power BI 9. Publishing a Bot to Skype, Slack, Facebook, and the GroupMe Channel

Bots are evolving

A bot is a piece of software designed to automate a specific task. When talked about in the context of conversation as a platform, a bot becomes the chat interface of a regular app. So, you should allow tasks that require full UI to be performed by the user only through conversation. We are at the early stages of a major evolving technology trend: the rise of conversation bots. Conversation bots can read and write messages just like a human would. Users will be able to interact with bots just as they interact with other humans using natural language.

Skype, WeChat, Kik, Facebook, GroupMe, Slack, Telegram, and so on are emerging conversation platforms, which help us in enabling interactions with any service from within the conversation platform. All these platforms enable developers to build conversation bots to provide a specific service. We can program bots to carry out specific automated actions...

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