Developing Bots with Microsoft Bots Framework: Create Intelligent Bots using MS Bot Framework and Azure Cognitive Services

✍ Scribed by Srikanth Machiraju,Ritesh Modi (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Develop Intelligent Bots using Microsoft Bot framework (C# and Node.js), Visual Studio Enterprise & Code, MicrosoftAzure and Cognitive Services. This book shows you how to develop great Bots, publish to Azure and register with Bot portal so that customers canconnect and communicate using famous communication channels like Skype, Slack, Web and Facebook. You'll also learn how to build intelligence into Bots using Azure Cognitive Services like LUIS, OCR, Speech to Text and Web Search.Bots are the new face of user experience. Conversational User Interface provides many options to make userexperience richer, innovative and engaging with email, text, buttons or voice as the medium for communication.Modern line of business applications can be replaced or associated with intelligent Bots that can use data/historycombined with Machine intelligence to make user experience inclusive and exciting.
With Developing Bots with Microsoft Bots Framework, you'll see just how simple Bot building can be.
What You'll Learn

• Build Bots using MS Bot framework on Windows and Non-Windows platforms
  
• Publish your Bot to the cloud in minutes
  
• Create rich communication platforms between your application and users
  
• Apply Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to your applications

Who This Book Is For
Developers and Architects who design and build modern applications or communication platforms using MS stack or open source technologies.
Business Analysts and UX Specialists interested in designing and building trendy user interfaces/platforms using Bots and Azure ML

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Conversations as Platforms (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 1-17
Develop Bots Using .NET Core (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 19-52
Develop Bots Using Node.js (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 53-73
Channels (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 75-97
Bot Conversations (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 99-121
Skype Calling Bot (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 123-150
Storing State (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 151-180
Dialogs (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 181-202
Natural Language Processing (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 203-232
Azure Cognitive Services (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 233-260
Bot Operations (Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi)....Pages 261-278
Back Matter ....Pages 279-283

✦ Subjects

Microsoft and .NET