My presentation about Introduction to BOT Framework for Global Azure Bootcamp 2017

1. INTRODUCTION
TO BOT
FRAMEWORK
Build and connect intelligent bots
Jalpesh Vadama
@jalpesh
Co-Founder, FutureStack Solution

2. ABOUT ME
▪ More than 12+ years of experience in technologies like .NET, Azure ,
Node.js and related technologies.
▪ Co-Founder of FutureStack
Solution(http://www.futurestacksolution.com).
▪ Awarded Microsoft MVP 5 times. Currently MVP in Visual Studio and
Development Technologies.
▪ Active Member of Ahmedabad User Group.
▪ Frequently writes blog about Micorosft.NET Technologies and related
technologies at http://www.dotnetjalps.com.
▪ Also awarded as Dzone Most Valuable Blogger.

3. WHAT IS BOT IS NOT
▪ AI
▪ Natural Language Processing only
▪ Text Interface only

4. WHAT ARE BOTS?

5. TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION
Mid-80’s
• Personal
Computers and
MainFrames
• Excel, PowerPoint
and Lotus
• Desktop UI
Mid-90’s
• Internet and Web
Browsers
• Web Sites- Yahoo,
Amazon
• Web Pages
Mid-00’s
• Mobiles Devices
and Mobile
Operating System
• Apps – AngryBirds,
Instagram
• Natives
Apps(Android,IOS
and Windows)
Mid-10’s
• Messaging App’s
(WhatsApp, Skype,
WeChat and Hike)
• Apps, Personal
Assistants like Siri,
Cortana
• Conversations

6. IS THIS IT?

7. BOTS ARE COMING!

8. CONVERSATIONS ARE NEW PLATFORM
OF HABITS
Source : BI Intelligence, Portio Research

9. WHAT IS BOT?
▪ A BOT is a software that is designed to
automate the tasks you would usually
do on your own. Like making a dinner
reservation to your favorite pizza shop,
finding a cool place to go with your
partner, adding an appointment to your
calendar.
▪ Typically, bot performs/automate tasks
that can be done by human at much
higher rate than would be possible for
humans.

10. WHAT IS BOT FRAMEWORK?
▪ Bot Framework is a Microsoft-operated
service and an SDK. Conversation as Platform
▪ BOT Framework is one of many tools
Microsoft offers for building a complete BOT.
▪ Other Services includes, LUIS, Speech APIs,
Cognitive Services and Azure and More!
▪ A comprehensive platform of tools & services
that can help you build your bot, provide
your bot with smart capabilities and publish
it wherever your users talk.

11. BOT FRAMEWORK COMPONENTS
Microsoft BOT Framework
Bot Connector Bot DirectoryBot Builder SDKs
Connect your bot(s) to
text/sms, Office 365 mail,
Skype, Slack, and other
services.
Build great dialogs within
your Node.js- or C#-based
bot
Try, use, and add published
bots to the world’s top
conversation experiences
• Register, connect, publish and
manage your bot through the
bot dashboard
• Message routing
• Automatic translation to 30+
languages
• User and state management
• Embeddable web chat control
• Debugging tools
• Open source SDK on Github
• From simple built-in prompts
and command dialogs to
simple to use yet
sophisticated ‘FormFlow’
dialogs
• Libraries, samples and tools
to make a great
conversationalist
• Chat emulator
• Leverage related services
available in Cognitive Services
• Public directory of bots
registered and approved with
Bot Framework
• Users can try your bot from
the directory via the web
chat control
• Users can discover and add
your bot to the channels on
which it is configured

12. Your conversation logic
Logic
Web
service
LUIS
BOT FRAMEWORK COMPONENTS

13. BOT CONNECTOR
Your bot
Channels

14. BOT CONNECTOR MESSAGES
Your bot
{
"type": "Message",
"id": "68YrxgtB53Y",
"conversationId": "DphPaFQrDuZDKyCez4AFGcT4vy5aQDje1lLGIjB8v18MFtb",
"language": "en",
"text": "You can say "/order" to order!",
"attachments": [ ],
"from": {
"name": "+12065551212",
"channelId": "sms",
"address": "+12065551212",
"id": "Ro52hKN287",
"isBot": false
},
"channelData": { SMS data here },
"botUserData": { your data here },
...
}
Bot
Connector

15. CONNECTING YOUR BOTS TO USERS
Visual
Studio
Template
Simple
Weather
Bot
LUIS
Publish to
Azure
Connect to
users
Add dialog
smarts

16. DEMO

17. LUIS- THE AI SERVICE

18. LANGUAGE UNDERSTADING INTELLIGENT SERVICE
▪ Part of Microsoft Cognitive services.
▪ Right now in beta and available as free.
▪ Implements Machine Learning so interaction with other
services are really good.
▪ Deploy Just within 5 minutes with just a few example.
▪ Supports five languages(English, Chinese, Italian, French,
Spanish)
▪ Very easy to train. Can Deploy your models as end points(Rest
API)
▪ SDK Available for C#, Node.js, Android and Python

19. LUIS INTENTS, ENTTIES, UTTERANCES
▪ Intent: Intent means what we desire or what our intent is.
▪ Our Intent for this demo is to find weather information so
weather is intent
▪ Entity: A entity is a keyword or entity which we are going to
query to LUIS
▪ Here we are going to find weather of city so city is our entity.
▪ Utterances: It is used to train Luis to understand how human
query or talk with each other.
▪ Utterances sample: is it a good weather in newyork

20. DEMO

21. BOT FRAMEWORK RESOURCES
Documentation on Bot Framework Portal
https://docs.botframework.com
Getting with Bot Framework
https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/csharp/builder/sdkreference/gettingstarted.html
Visual C# Template
http://aka.ms/bf-bc-vstemplate
Bot Framework Emulator
Test your bot locally or after publishing
https://aka.ms/bf-bc-emulator
External Resources
GitHub for Builder: https://github.com/Microsoft/botbuilder
Stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/botframework

22. QUESTOINS AND ANSWERS

23. CONTACT ME
https://github.com/dotnetjalps/GAB2017
SOURCE CODE URL FOR THIS DEMO:
Company: http://www.futurestacksolution.com
Blog: http://www.dotnetjalps.com
Twitter: @jalpesh
Github: https://github.com/dotnetjalps
Email: jalpesh@futurestacksolution.com
Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jalpeshvadgama