Detect entities in expressions

celine_lemonne — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:20:56 GMT

Entities are relevant pieces of information for your bot to extract from a user's expression and remember so that it can re-use it. Therefore, entities should only be used if these pieces of information are needed in the conversation.

For example, in the message "I want to order a large pepperoni pizza", entities like "pizza type" and "pizza size" are relevant pieces of information to place a pizza order.

If an entity is successfully detected, the bot will store this entity as a variable.

Entities can be:

Contextual entities
Match entities
System entities

See how you can check if the user input matches your entity inside of a Collect input block.

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Detect entities in expressions