Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development by Srini Janarthanam -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright

Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development

Credits About the Author About the Reviewer www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Errata Piracy Questions

Introduction

Conversational user interfaces

A brief history of chatbots Recent developments Architecture of a conversational user interface Classification Applications

Developer's toolkit

Mockup tools Channels Chatbot development tools Analytics Natural Language understanding Directory services Monetization

Benefits Chatbots are here to stay Lets get started!

References

Tour Guide for Your City

Getting started Building your first bot Basic building blocks

Blocks Cards Buttons Plugins Attributes

Default blocks Next steps More cards

Image Audio Video Quick replies Gallery List

Navigation

Buttons Go to block cards

Managing context

User input cards Setting user attributes Default contextual variables

Understanding natural language

Default block

Backend processing Broadcasting Bot templates Analytics Summary References

Let's Talk Weather

Conversational tasks Conversational design Backend tasks

Getting weather data

Getting the API key Trying your key

Building the backend interface

Implementing the chatbot Creating a chatbot web service Publishing on Facebook Messenger

Creating a Facebook Page Creating a username Creating a Facebook App Creating a Facebook interface web app Connecting the Facebook App and interface app Testing your chatbot Adding more testers Making it public

More Facebook message formats

Content types

Image attachments Audio attachments Video attachments Files

Templates

Button template List template Generic template

Summary References

Building a Persona Bot

Introducing Dialogflow

Setting up Dialogflow Creating a basic agent Deploying the chatbot

Website integration Facebook integration

Context Entities

System entities

Rich response formats Importing and exporting agents

Exporting, restoring, and importing agents Exporting and importing intents and entities

Fulfillments

Summary References

Let's Catch a Train

Exploring Transport API

Creating a developer account Exploring the dataset

Train stations near you

Response

Trains in the area

Response

Live departures

Response

Station timetables

Response

Service timetables

Response

Conversational design

Nearest station Next train Time of arrival

Building a simple SMS bot

Getting started Setting up the dashboard Simple Message Sender My train notifier Scheduling tasks

Building a two-way chatbot

Understanding users' utterances

Creating an API.AI agent Create a Node.js interface to the API.AI agent Integrating API.AI agent to SMS chatbot

Summary References

Restaurant Search

MS Bot Framework

Channel emulator

Building a bot

Deploying your bot More message types

Sending more than one message per turn Prompting users for information Rich messages

Conversation flow

Responding to user utterances Keeping context intact Context switching Contextual NLU Ending the conversation

Conversational state

Getting started with Zomato

Getting data from Zomato

Restaurant search bot Connecting to Skype Summary References

The News Bot

Getting started with the Twitter app Building your first Twitter bot Exploring the Twitter SDK

Updating your status Retweet to your followers Searching for tweets

Exploring a news data service

Setting up NewsAPI

Building a Twitter news bot Building a personalized news bot

Creating a database of user interests Accessing the user interests database Informing the bot of user interests

Summary References

My TV Guide

Amazon Alexa Warming up with a quotes bot

Configuring your skill Interaction model Conversation manager - quotes Test on Alexa

My TV guide

Building the interaction model Setting up the TV skill server Testing the TV skill

Built-in intents and slot types Summary References

My Man Friday

Todoist

Getting the key Adding a task Retrieving all tasks for the day

Building an action

Building a Dialogflow agent Creating a web app Testing the agent on Dialogflow Integrating with Google Assistant Test on Google Home

Summary Conclusion References

More Resources

Articles List of conferences List of magazines Groups on social media

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