Bus Bot

A bot that checks bus times in London

If you don't know how to work with the bot framework, I highly recommend you go through this beginners course first:

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/getting-started-with-bots-16759?l=2zTAb2HyC_3504668937

What you need

• Install nodejs: https://nodejs.org/en/
• Install the bot emulator: https://aka.ms/bf-bc-emulator

Running the bot locally

• Inside the folder of your project (the busbot), run the following command to pull down all of the dependencies needed for the project

$ npm install

• Run this command to start the bot

$ node app.js

Setting up the LUIS model

If you haven't used LUIS before, read through the documentation first:

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/luis-api/documentation/home

• Go to luis.ai
• Register or sign in to your account
• Click on 'Add New App' and select 'Import Existing Application'
• Upload the 'londonbusbot.json' file found in this project
• You then need to start feeding in different phrases 1) labeling the intents 2) highliging the entities you want to extract in each phrase
• Train and publish the model to get the URL needed to run the bot with LUIS, which is this line in of the code:

var model = process.env.LUIS_MODEL;