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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 ...

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...

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 ...

Integrating an Existing Bot Platform with Microsoft’s Bot Framework

Ami Turgman December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16

Image: tabletop assistant by Matthew Hurst, used by CC BY 2.0 Background SMARKIO is a suite of tools to help companies solve the puzzle of digital marketing. The suite includes integrated technologies that work on a website (such as trigger overlays, automated chats that replace web forms, and dynamic content). It also includes technologies ...

Leveraging Azure Search for Implementing a QnA Bot in Unsupported Languages

Ami Turgman December 10, 2016 Dec 10, 2016 12/10/16

Image: F.A.Q by photosteve101, used by CC BY 2.0 Background Our team recently worked with a Korean company that wanted to expose a QnA (Frequently Asked Questions / Questions and Answers) bot in their web portal to help answer common user questions. Bot Framework provides a QnA service (QnA Maker) that takes a list of common questions and ...

Integrating Payments with Bots

Bhargav Nookala October 31, 2016 Oct 31, 2016 10/31/16

Background At a recent collaboration with a customer, we learned about a few integrations they had wanted to build for Bots running with the Microsoft Bot Framework. One such integration was with a payments service provider, like PayPal. We had created an example of this integration with the C# SDK for Bot Framework, but no such example ...

Servicing FAQ-Style Content Through a Conversational Interface

Toby Bradshaw September 12, 2016 Sep 12, 2016 09/12/16

Background Recent advances in Machine Learning coupled with the growing ubiquity of instant messaging apps have revived interest in the decades-old concept of chatbots, now more commonly known as ‘bots’. Microsoft has taken a leading position in this field with the release of the Bot Framework SDK and LUIS language understanding ...

A Peer Review Bot for GitHub

Anthony Turner August 1, 2015 Aug 1, 2015 08/1/15

We, in Microsoft’s Open Source team, occasionally write case studies to explain our work with a bit more technical depth for both external engineers as well as our fellow internal Microsoft engineers. Naturally, we don’t want to embarrass ourselves. So before any case study is released, we have to get some peer reviews. Our blog is ...

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