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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services Leverage Machine Learning APIs to build smart applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623025
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Leif Larsen Henning Larsen Leif Larsen Henning Larsen
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services FREE CHAPTER 2. Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face 3. Analyzing Videos 4. Letting Applications Understand Commands 5. Speaking with Your Application 6. Understanding Text 7. Extending Knowledge Based on Context 8. Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way 9. Adding Specialized Searches 10. Connecting the Pieces 11. LUIS Entities and Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis 12. License Information

Answering FAQs using QnA Maker


QnA Maker allows us to use existing frequently asked questions (FAQ) to create a bot that answers these questions. We can generate a knowledge base from existing FAQs, and train a model from it.

To get started, head over to https://qnamaker.ai. Log on or register, by clicking Sign in, in the top right corner. This will present you with the following screen:

If no services have been created yet, the list will be empty.

Creating a knowledge base from frequently asked questions

If no services have been created, we can create one by clicking on the Create new service tab. This will present us with the following screen:

  1. Enter a name for the service.
  2. Enter the baseline FAQs to use. This can either be in the form of one or more URLs, or a file containing questions and answer pairs. For our example, we will be generating a knowledge base from the URL.
  1. Let the rest of the settings be default.
  2. Click Create.

Note

If you do not have any FAQ to use, you can use the following from...

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