January 2017

Orchestrating Multiple Bots with Multilingual Support

Mor Shemesh January 21, 2017 Jan 21, 2017 01/21/17

This code story describes how my team at Microsoft collaborated with Sage to find imaginative solutions for their bot-related challenges. Sage was setting out to develop a large collection of bots that would be offered in a variety of languages, locations, and needs. But in order to build them, they first needed good design and infrastructure...

Unit Testing for Bot Applications

Mor Shemesh January 20, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 01/20/17

Image: Mr Robot has some RAM by Chris Isherwood, used by CC BY 2.0 First Things First Writing code using ad-hoc technologies like Microsoft Bot Framework (MBF) is fun and exciting. But before rushing to code bots that can make coffee and send spaceships to the moon, you need to think about unit testing your code. Recently, we worked ...

The Deploy to Azure Button

Jason Poon January 17, 2017 Jan 17, 2017 01/17/17

The ‘Deploy to Azure’ button enables quick and easy deployment of your open source projects to Microsoft Azure. We’ll walk through how we added a ‘Deploy to Azure’ button to the slackin project, and show how you can do the same. What is slackin? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cse/wp-admin/revision.php?revision=11045 slackin is ...

Building LUIS Models for Unsupported Languages with Machine Translation

Ari Bornstein January 14, 2017 Jan 14, 2017 01/14/17

Overview The following case study outlines a method for providing additional language support for LUIS using the Microsoft Translation Cognitive API. Background Moed.ai is an Israeli Startup that enables service providers to manage and fill their business calendar with a unified cloud-based platform, that is accessible from any device...

Building a Pipeline for Extracting and Graphing Entities and Relations from a Corpus of Documents

Mor Shemesh January 11, 2017 Jan 11, 2017 01/11/17

Miroculus is a startup developing a simple, quick and affordable blood test to diagnose cancer and other diseases at an early stage. Their test device can detect the existence of micro-RNAs (miRNAs) in the patient’s blood, which may correlate with a particular disease. Miroculus developed the loom.bio tool that builds a visual graph ...

Creating a Single Bot Service with Azure to Support Multiple Bot Applications

Ami Turgman January 10, 2017 Jan 10, 2017 01/10/17

Cover image used with permission from moed.ai This post describes a method to create a single bot service that runs on Azure and serves multiple bot applications. One of the benefits of this architecture is the ability to manage it as a single service instead of creating a separate bot service for each bot application. Instead, you can ...

Predicting Expense Type from Receipts with Microsoft Cognitive Services

CY Yam January 1, 2017 Jan 1, 2017 01/1/17

This post explores how we can leverage machine learning techniques to help partially automate the processes of accounting and expenditure reimbursement. Often, such methods require manual input of information from an invoice or receipt, such as total amount spent, tax amount, type of expenditure, transaction date, etc. This code story will ...

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