Is it possible to detect an entity using a regex?
For example, I want a number starting with '91xxxxxxx' to be mapped with an entity named EmployeeID. So if the user says something like - "Please pull out today's report for 91xxxxxxx", I should be able to map the number to the EmployeeID entity.
There are multiple requests about this on the API.AI forum. Unfortunately, presently the answer to your question is No.
The current suggestion is to use the #sys.any wildcard and implement the regex functionality in your business logic.
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I'm working on a bot using Jovo4 and Google Actions (not Dialogflow) as NLP provider.
I've created an entity called contactName which has dozens of names and, as you may guess, it's used to identify names out of intents.
The problem is, the Bot has its onw name and it keeps identifying it as a contactName everytime the user mention it casually during the conversation.
How do I prevent the bot from identifying a specific value on an entity?
Is it possible to insert/classify "undesired" values?
Obs1: I didn't add the bot name as a trainning value
Obs2: Fuzzy Matching and the ability to "accept unknown values" is on because I need it.
The best way to handle this is to create an intent intentionally to match these queries and redirect them appropriately, which may include responding to the user and stating what kinds of user queries are valid.
For my project I need to trigger 2 entities by one word. I have two entities with list of restaurant types the restaurant_type_id and restaurant_type. In the responses I am using $restaurant_type, but I need also to trigger the id of the restaurant type that is inside restaurant_type_id.
In the example below you can see that only one of the entities is triggered.
Is there a way to do that or that is not possible? I have tried looking for more information, but couldn't find anything in the DialogFlow Docs.
One way of getting the id as well as the name is by asking the Dialogflow to send the original value along with the resolved one.
To do this, you can create one single entity like below,
Next in the intent section under the parameter, you can tell the Dialogflow to send both the original and resolved data.
Now you have both the id and name.
In order to work the above answer, you will have to follow this rule. Otherwise, it won't recognise.
i want to download or atleast view all api.ai system entities
the purpose is to understand how they made entity like sys.number and sys.date
the problem i'm facing is that i'm using sys.date entity for my bot whihc works very fine for casual cases like "today" "tomorrow" detected as current date
but fails in special cases like: i want to add one more thing that when user say "aaj", "foran" or "abhi" so it also detect as current date, these are slang words for "today" used in a specific region
All API.AI system entities are listed here: https://api.ai/docs/reference/system-entities The values of those entities (which seems to be what you're asking for) are too large to be published (i.e. all cities).
If you wish to add additional entity values I'd recommend creating additional entities (like today or tomorrow) with the values you believe should be included (like aaj, foran or abhi) and handle them either in your webhook or with custom responses specifically using those entities in your response in API.AI.
If you haven't already you may want to check if API.AI supports the language you're trying to implement. You can check the language of your agent in your API.AI agent's settings (if is not the right language you can select the language you want when creating a new API.AI agent, a list of support languages is here: https://api.ai/docs/reference/language)
I am building a google-assistant application with api.ai that delivers data that has been aggregated over a date-period via a webhook.
It is common for people to ask for date periods using the word "since", for instance:
"What is the data since last monday" (tuesday - now)
or the even trickier:
"What is the data since last year". (ambiguous reference to date-period)
Can api.ai parse these date-periods, or is it necessary to identify if the intent request is of a special "relative" type and then construct the date-period manually?
You will probably want to use something like the #sys.date-period pre-defined entity.
For example, if you create an Intent with a "User says" with parameters such as:
and a response:
and then enter in some queries like:
These might not be exactly what you need, so you may need to craft more of you own. If so, check out the #sys.date pre-defined entity, which may do some of the work for you, and the complete list at https://docs.api.ai/docs/concept-entities#section-date-and-time
I'm trying to make an agent that can give me details about movies.
For example, the user says "Tell me about (movie-name)", which sends a post request to my API with the (movie-name) which then returns the response.
However, I don't understand how to grab the movie name from the user's speech without creating a movieName entity with a list of all the movies out there. I just want to grab the next word the user says after "tell me about" and store it as a parameter. How do I go about achieving that?
Yes, you must create a movieName entity, but you do not need to create a list of all movies. Maybe you are experienced with Alexa which requires a list of suggested values, but in api.ai you don't need to do that.
I find that api.ai is not very good at figuring out which words are part of a free-form entity like movieName, but hopefully adding enough user expressions will help it with that.
edit: the entity I was thinking of is '#sys.any' but maybe it would be better to use a list of movie names with the 'automated expansion' feature. I haven't tried that, but it sounds like the way that Alexa's custom slots work, which is actually a lot more flexible (just using the list as a guideline) then people seem to think.