Composer detects changes and updates the bot's cloud-based natural language understanding model automatically so it's always up to date. In Composer, you can use regular expression, LUIS, and Orchestrator recognizers. lu file format, a simple Markdown-like format that makes it easy to define new intents and entities, and provide sample utterances. As dialogs are edited in Composer, developers can continuously add to their bots' natural language capabilities using the. Language understanding is a core component of Composer that allows developers and conversation designers to train language understanding models directly in the context of editing a dialog. They also help you focus on the model of the conversation rather than the mechanics of dialog management. Adaptive dialogs and the event model simplify sophisticated conversation modeling enabling more natural, dynamic conversation flow, interruption, and context switching. When building bots in Composer, developers will have access to: Adaptive dialogsĭialogs provide a way for bots to manage conversations with users. Under the hood, Composer harnesses the power of many of the components from the Bot Framework SDK. The Composer documentation supports the latest stable release of Composer, and some aspects of the nightly builds may not work as described in the documentation.įor more information about nightly builds, see Application settings. The nightly builds include pre-release features and may change how some operations are performed.
Integrate Orchestrator, which is an advanced transformer model-based router that can delegate from a parent bot to skills based on a user's utterance.Extend the dialog authoring canvas with Create custom actions.Make any Bot available as a Skill for other Bots to call.These assets can quickly add functionality to your project. Package manager provides a range of reusable conversational assets and code built by Microsoft and third parties.Import and export dialog assets to share with other developers.Integrate external services such as QnA Maker knowledge base.īeyond a visual editing canvas, you can use Composer to do the following:.Extend Power Virtual Agents with Composer ( Preview).Publish bots to Azure App Service and Azure Functions.Test directly inside Composer using embedded Web Chat.Author text and if needed speech variation responses for your Bot using language generation templates.
Add natural language understanding capabilities to your Bot using LUIS and QnA and FAQ capabilities using QnA Maker.Create a new bot using a template, which incorporates the Virtual Assistant capabilities directly into Composer.More complex activities such as integrating with dependencies such as REST Web Services are best suited towards code and we provide an easy mechanism to extend Composer bots with code bringing the best of both together.Ĭomposer is a visual editing canvas for building bots. If the desktop app isn't suited to your needs, you can build Composer from source or host Composer in the cloud.Īuthoring dialog experiences with a visual designer is more efficient and enables easier modeling of more sophisticated conversational experiences where context switching, interruption, and more natural and dynamic conversation flows are important. Resulting experiences can then be tested within Composer and provisioned into Azure along with any dependent resources.Ĭomposer is available as a desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It provides a powerful visual authoring canvas enabling dialogs, language-understanding models, QnAMaker knowledge bases, and language generation responses to be authored from within one canvas and crucially, enables these experiences to be extended with code for more complex tasks such as system integration. Bot Framework Composer, built on the Bot Framework SDK, is an open-source IDE for developers to author, test, provision, and manage conversational experiences.