Microsoft Bot -Part2: Create a Question and Answer

In the last post, I have shown how to create a simple Bot.

In this post, I am going to show how to create a Question and Answer Bot and embed it in a website.

To start you need to create a Web App Bot in Microsoft Azure with Bot Template as Question and Answer.

After creating the Web App Bot, you need to set up App Service Setting.

Click on the Application Setting,  there are four different parameters under the Application Settings: The QnAAuthKey, QnAEndpointHostName, and QnAKowledgebaseid.

To set these parameters, we need to create a Question and Answer Knowledgebase.

to create Knowledgebase navigate to the website: https://www.qnamaker.ai/

in the website click on the Create a Knowledge Base.

You need to create a Cognitive Service, for QnA in Azure First.

Now, you need to set the knowledge base, putting the proper name and assign the Azure specification. Now you need to back to the https://www.qnamaker.ai/

In the Populate your KB, there are two option: Url and File input. you able to pass the frequent questions to the website in the format of TSV, PDF, Doc, Xlxs. The form can be uploaded to the web or it can be accessible via uploading the file.

I am going to create a knowledge base for a conference, so everybody able to search for some frequent questions such as: Location, what time start, where to park, what accommodation and so forth. For this aim, I created a word documents to write these frequent question there.

After creating this document, I need to upload it to the qnamaker website.

After uploading the frequent question word document into the website, the preview of the questions and answer will be shown. There is a possibility to add more question and answer.

Now you need to save and train, and finally publish it. After publishing the QnA, the required fields will be shown up. As you can in see in the below picture, the knowledge base ID, endpoint hostname, and authentication key.

Now, you need to put the below keys in the Web App Bot.

Now you need to check the app in the Test in Web Chat. 

As I have explained in the last post, you able to embed the Bot in the Power BI, Telegram, or any website as below.

Now, to connect it with telegram you need to get some Access Token from your telegram and put it in the requested field.

Now you need to put the key and embed the HTML code in the website.

<iframe width=”100%” height=”400px” src=”https://webchat.botframework.com/embed/questionleila?s=Secret Key”></iframe>

I recorded the process in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HGd6hQ49SE&t=6s

Leila Etaati

Trainer, Consultant, Mentor

Leila is the first Microsoft AI MVP in New Zealand and Australia, She has Ph.D. in Information System from the University Of Auckland. She is the Co-director and data scientist in RADACAD Company with more than 100 clients in around the world. She is the co-organizer of Microsoft Business Intelligence and Power BI Use group (meetup) in Auckland with more than 1200 members, She is the co-organizer of three main conferences in Auckland: SQL Saturday Auckland (2015 till now) with more than 400 registrations, Difinity (2017 till now) with more than 200 registrations and Global AI Bootcamp 2018. She is a Data Scientist, BI Consultant, Trainer, and Speaker. She is a well-known International Speakers to many conferences such as Microsoft ignite, SQL pass, Data Platform Summit, SQL Saturday, Power BI world Tour and so forth in Europe, USA, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. She has over ten years’ experience working with databases and software systems. She was involved in many large-scale projects for big-sized companies. She also AI and Data Platform Microsoft MVP. Leila is an active Technical Microsoft AI blogger for RADACAD.