Encamina.Enmarcha.Bot.Skills.QuestionAnswering 8.1.6

Bot Skills Question Answering

This project mainly contains abstractions related to data used by other ENMARCHA NuGet packages or necessary for creating Question Answering skills

Setup

Nuget package

First, install NuGet. Then, install Encamina.Enmarcha.Bot.Skills.QuestionAnswering from the package manager console:

PM> Install-Package Encamina.Enmarcha.Bot.Skills.QuestionAnswering

.NET CLI:

Install .NET CLI. Next, install Encamina.Enmarcha.Bot.Skills.QuestionAnswering from the .NET CLI:

dotnet add package Encamina.Bot.Skills.QuestionAnswering

How to use

In addition to the abstractions (interfaces, abstract classes, etc.) that have their implementations in other ENMARCHA NuGets in Program.cs

// Add services to the container.
builder.Services.AddQuestionAnsweringSkill(options =>
{
    options.QuestionAnsweringServiceName = "YourServiceName";
    options.DialogName = "YourDialogName";
    options.DialogIntent = "YourDialogIntent";
    options.NormalizeMessage = true;
    options.NormalizeRemoveCharacters = new List<char> { 'a', 'b', 'c' };
}, ServiceLifetime.Singleton);

IServiceCollectionExtensions

IServiceCollectionExtensions is a static class that provides extension methods for IServiceCollection to add and configure services for a question answering skill and Cosmos DB support.

Methods

• AddQuestionAnsweringSkill: Adds and configures the question answering dialog with given configuration options and question answering service name. It takes an IServiceCollection, an Action<QuestionAnsweringSkillOptions>, and an optional ServiceLifetime as parameters. It returns the IServiceCollection for chaining additional calls.

• AddCosmosDbSupport: Adds support for Cosmos DB with configuration parameters from the current configuration. It takes an IServiceCollection, an IConfiguration, and an optional ServiceLifetime as parameters. It returns the IServiceCollection for chaining additional calls.

QuestionAnsweringDialog

QuestionAnsweringDialog is a class that defines a dialog for a question answering skill. It inherits from NamedDialogBase and implements the IIntendable interface.

Usage

On Program.cs

// Add bot dialogs...
builder.Services.AddSingleton<QuestionAnsweringDialog>().AddSingleton<Dialog, QuestionAnsweringDialog>();

Constructor

• QuestionAnsweringDialog: Initializes a new instance of the class. It takes a string id, a QuestionAnsweringDialogServices object, and an IOptionsMonitor<QuestionAnsweringSkillOptions> as parameters.

Fields

• configurationOptions: Stores the configuration options for this question answering dialog.

• services: Stores the services required for this question answering dialog.

• isMetadataProcessorAvailable and isSourcesProcessorAvailable: Indicate the availability of metadata and sources processors.

QuestionAnsweringSkillOptions

QuestionAnsweringSkillOptions is a class that provides configuration options for the question answering dialog.

Usage

To use this class, you need to create an instance and set the necessary properties:

var options = new QuestionAnsweringSkillOptions
{
    QuestionAnsweringServiceName = "YourServiceName",
    DialogName = "YourDialogName",
    DialogIntent = "YourDialogIntent",
    NormalizeMessage = true,
    NormalizeRemoveCharacters = new List<char> { 'a', 'b', 'c' }
};

Constructor

• QuestionAnsweringSkillOptions: Initializes a new instance of the class. It doesn't take any parameters.

Properties

• QuestionAnsweringServiceName: Gets or sets the name of the Question Answering service to use by this skill.

• DialogName: Gets or sets the dialog's name.

• DialogIntent: Gets or sets the dialog's intent.

• NormalizeMessage: Gets or sets a value indicating whether the question answering dialog must normalize the message (question) removing specific characters (usually diacritics). Defaults to false.

• NormalizeRemoveCharacters: Gets or sets a collection of characters to remove from the message when normalizing.