Building NLP and Conversational AI Solutions with Azure

Course

In this course, you'll design and build bot solutions on the Azure platform using the Microsoft Bot Framework, language understanding models with the LUIS service, knowledge bases with the Azure QnA service, and integrate Azure Cognitive Text Analytics and speech services.

Built in collaboration with

Microsoft

Advanced

3 weeks

Real-world Projects

Completion Certificate

Last Updated December 23, 2022

Skills you'll learn:

Azure cognitive services • Microsoft bot framework • Azure conversational ai agents • Requirements gathering

Prerequisites:

No experience required

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Introduction to NLP and Conversational Solutions with Azure

Welcome to Building NLP and Conversational AI Solutions with Azure. In this lesson you'll learn more about the course, prerequisites, tools, and environment.

Lesson 2

Designing NLP and Conversational AI Solutions

In this lesson, you'll learn how to create requirements for NLP and conversational AI solutions and responsible AI principles involved in building these solutions

Lesson 3

Building Bots with the Bot Framework

In this lesson, you'll learn about the Microsoft Bot Framework and create bot applications

Lesson 4

NLP Cognitive Services

In this lesson, you'll learn about two Azure NLP Cognitive Services, QnA Maker and LUIS, and integrate them into bot applications to recognize user intent.

Lesson 5

Text Analytics and Speech Services

This lesson is about Azure Cognitive Text Analytics and Speech Services. You'll learn how to analyze incoming text in a bot application and speech-enable a bot application with bot channels

Lesson 6 • Project

Dental Office Virtual Assistant

Create a static web app for a dentist’s office with a web app bot service that answers customers’ questions and can schedule appointments.

Taught By The Best

Valerie Scarlata

Senior Technical Content Developer at Udacity

Valerie is a Sr. Technical Content Developer at Udacity who has developed and taught a broad range of computing curricula for multiple colleges and universities. She is a former professor and software engineer for over 10 years specializing in web, mobile, voice assistant, and full-stack application development.

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