Category: Technical
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Recursive questions with IBM Watson Conversations
UPDATE: The approach detailed in the post is now out of date for many use cases, please see the update post Using Slots to collect data in IBM Watson Conversations. IBM Watson released a new API earlier this year called Conversations which enables developers to build cognitive conversational solutions like chatbots and virtual assistants. A common…
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Accessing synonyms with IBM Watson Conversations
A couple of my clients have asked me how to access the synonym mentioned by a user when working with the IBM Watson Conversation service. Accessing the matching entity is well documented but it wasn’t apparent how to get the actual word or words mentioned by the user that the entity was matched on. Having…
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Writing what I think, the way I think it
I’ve been meaning to get started blogging for some time now and have finally decided that I simply need to get going. I’ve read the “How to start a Blog” guides several times, feeling inspired and confident after each iteration but something keeps holding me back. Having thought about what’s been stopping me, I decided…
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Conditional fields using IBM Watson Conversation Slots
I’ve been playing a little more with the Slots feature in IBM Watson Conversations and hit a few issues that at first seemed like they could be a problem. One scenario in particular that took me a while to solve, was how to build conditional logic into a node with…
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Using Slots to collect data in IBM Watson Conversations
A new feature was released in IBM Watson Conversations earlier this month called “Slots”. This feature allows the collection of data from users to be configured in a more data driven and succinct manner than was previously possible. In a previous post, I explained an approach for recursively collecting information…
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Pattern for gathering information in IBM Watson Conversations
UPDATE: The approach detailed in the post is now out of date for many use cases, please see the update post Using Slots to collect data in IBM Watson Conversations. In a previous post, I shared some thoughts and an approach to Recursive questions with IBM Watson’s Conversation service. The post detailed how…
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Recursive questions with IBM Watson Conversations
UPDATE: The approach detailed in the post is now out of date for many use cases, please see the update post Using Slots to collect data in IBM Watson Conversations. IBM Watson released a new API earlier this year called Conversations which enables developers to build cognitive conversational solutions like chatbots…
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Accessing synonyms with IBM Watson Conversations
A couple of my clients have asked me how to access the synonym mentioned by a user when working with the IBM Watson Conversation service. Accessing the matching entity is well documented but it wasn’t apparent how to get the actual word or words mentioned by the user that the…
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