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Customizable APIs – Episode 3: Training Watson Conversation to Detect User

Intent

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Our Expert:


Zach Walchuk, Developer Evangelist, IBM Watson

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Our Goals In this series, we want to focus on the Watson services that allow you to customize functionality to better fit your use case and industry

Today, we'll be showing you how the Conversation service uses intents and entities to understand user questions


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Intents Intents are categories that define what the user is trying to do

These categories are trained using representative examples

Recognizing intents does not require knowing the specifics of the user request—it is a way to guide the dialog flow in the appropriate direction


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Entities Entities are specific values that clarify user intent and trigger fine-tuned actions and responses

For each value, you can include a list of synonyms to capture the possible varieties in user expression


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Are you ready to get started? Watson Conversation:

https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/conversation.html

Developer Documentation: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/conversation/

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What’s next? Look out for a follow up email with a copy of these

slides, a recording of the webinar, Q&A recap, and additional resources

The series continues bi-weekly on Wednesdays @ 12pm ET / 9am PT New Tools for Easy Dialog Scripting - Wednesday, September 7 Application Starter Kits for Developers - Wednesday, September 21

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