TechDays Online 2016 Bots

Accompanying code and resources for the three sessions Monday 13th September at TechDays Online 2016.

The links are presented in the order that they appear in the sessions.

I'll update the code and include links to the slides after Monday

##Session Summary

Session 1 - The Why of Bots

An overview of intelligence in organisations, Why Bots are important and how they will help an organisation.

• Bot Framework
• Bot Application Visual Studio 2015 Template
• Bot Framework Channel Emulator

Session 2 - The How of Bots

A run through of how to build a bot and where it can be used and how natural language fits in to building a more natural Bot.

• LUIS
• Cognitive Services

Session 3 - The When of Bots

A set of demonstrations on Building and using natural language and sentiment analysis to enhance a Bot.

• Cognitive Services Text Analytics

##Code and configuration shown in Sessions

The code and resource for each demo are in /TechDays.Bots/.

###Demo1.HelloBotFramework Introduces the Bot Framework using a simple Bot. To get this working you will need to:

• Add the BotId, MicrosoftAppId, MicrosoftAppPassword defined in Bot registration to the web.config.

##Demo2.LUIS Luis model and utterances sample to train the Bot. You can import both these files through the Luis portal.

##Demo3.IntelligentBot Demonstrates adding intelligence to your Bot by linking a Bot Application to LUIS model by use of LuisDialog. To get this working you will need to:

• Add the BotId, MicrosoftAppId, MicrosoftAppPassword defined in Bot registration to the web.config.
• Add your LUIS Model Id & LUIS Subscription Key to the SalesLuisDialog

##Demo4.SentimentBot Demonstrates adding sentiment analysis using a third party component - Cogntive Services Text Analytics. To get this working you will need to:

• Add the BotId, MicrosoftAppId, MicrosoftAppPassword defined in Bot registration to the web.config.
• Add the CognitiveServicesTextAnalyticsKey to the web.config