There are two main ways to specify assistant’s responses: intent-based responses and Frequently Asked Questions. Intent-based approach implies two separate components: Intent Catcher (multi-label classifier detecting given intents) and Intent Responder (skill with template-based responses to intents detected by Intent Catcher). The components are separate because detected intents can be also used by other skills.
Intent Catcher is a multi-label classifier that helps to detect custom intents of the user, for example, we provide pre-defined intents like: yes, no, what_is_your_name, lets_chat_about, etc. Intent Catcher can be built with any multi-label classification model. The main problem of this component usually is out-of-scope detection – the classifier can return false positive intents when not trained properly. The current Transformers-based version of Intent Catcher requires training after adding new custom intents.
Intent Catcher utilizes two ways of intent detection: multi-label trainable classifier and matching with Regular Expressions (the full user utterance is compared with the given regular expressions).
For example, from the regular expression
(hi! |hello! ){0,1}how are you?two examples will be generated:hi! how are you?andhello! how are you?. One also may insert several examples (both texts or regular expressions) at once splitting them with a new line.
For example, the intent
how_are_you willbe detected in a user utterancehi! how are youusing a regular expression(hi! |hello! ){0,1}how are you?{0,1}. One also may insert several regular expressions at once splitting them by a new line.
DFF Intent Responder Skill is a template-based skill for answering to the user’s special requests (intents).
DFF Intent Responder Skill contains responses to some intents from Intent Catcher (some intents are more general and do not require special responses but are used in other skills as a custom classification).
Frequently Asked Questions is a common approach to specify assistant’s responses to some user’s requests. Despite the fact that Frequently Asked Questions Component is almost equal to pair of Intent Catcher and Intent Responder, we distinguish it for convenience – Frequently Asked Questions Component accepts data in a common format of csv file with 2 columns containing user questions and system responses.