I know that google assistant can understand when I spell a word (e.g. "h-e-l-l-o"). How can I use this feature for my action? I want users to spell a word and I want to be able to get this as an input. Thanks
You would need to design a custom scene that handles this. You could use slot filling to gather the input from the user, and then define the transition criteria based on what prompt is given.
You can get a feel for the conversational flow with user spelling input by looking at some of the other available Actions based around spelling challenges.
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I am now ready to submit my app and I'm reading Apple's App Store Guidelines that I'm required to have a method for filtering objectionable material from being posted to my app. In my case, I believe this means I have to have a method for filtering the chat/posts to make sure people cannot bully each other or post pornographic pictures in the chat.
Has anyone ever encountered this before? Any recommendation on the best way to proceed? Perhaps there is a way to add a list of objectionable words and phrases to the chat and/or firebase to be able to prevent certain objectionable things from being said? Any pre-existing filters you can import? I'm using firebase.
I really have no idea how to solve this. Thanks for the comments.
I have had an app rejected for not providing a way to hide content if a user deems not suitable.
You can add a “do not show me again” action and also you must add a reporting system for users to flag any abusif content.
In my case I added two buttons : hide and report.
Any hidden content is applied for that user.
For reported content, if a content gets three reports, that content gets hidden from the whole community.
This was my way of doing it, you can come up with your own vision.
Apple will also want you to address this issue in the terms of use that the users must accept when using your app, you most likely add a checkbox on the signup screen that a user has read and accepted the terms of user, and you provide your terms of use either through and external url or a dedicated screen.
We've been using Microsoft's LUIS cognitive service as an ML tool for our Chatbot. We've observed that whenever there is a swear word entered, there is no response from the bot. I couldn't find anything about this in the documentations, except that LUIS can identify slang words.
I would also like to know if anyone knows how to customize your Chatbot's response in such a scenario?
Any help would be great. Thank you!
LUIS doesn't filter swearwords. Regarding an explanation for the lack of response from your chatbot, it would be necessary to see the code for the bot. If the user isn't in a dialog and utters a swearword, your bot should either map it to a defined intent, map it to the crowd-favorite "None" intent, or do nothing with it. To my knowledge the only time the chatbot will do nothing, is when a handler for the "None" intent isn't defined.
To handle an utterance that contains swearwords it's necessary to know the context behind it.
At certain points, the SDK you're using may block swearwords indirectly. E.g. a user saying, "#$%! yes!" to a confirm prompt may have the bot asking the user to repeat themselves with either a yes or no response.
An extremely simple and intrusive way to handle swear words in the Node SDK would be to create a bot.dialog() that activates through the use of .triggerAction(). You can use regexp so the chatbot responds to swearwords by switching to this dialog. You can also use a custom Intent Recognizer to recognize swearwords.
The 'Swear' intent needs to be implemented by hand in LUIS. I suggest to separate it from the None intent in LUIS.
In the Bot, it is possible to have the same handler for None and Swear intents, or to have separate handlers and potentially different Bot behaviors for these two intents.
I am currently developing a desktop application based on eclipse.
Currently the user needs to perform many redundant actions like doing step A in View 1 then doing step B in View 2 then repeat. I am wondering if anybody knows a solution that records/recommends user actions in eclipse based applications.
Maybe based on the history much like the web based solutions.
Any help would be good.
Thanks.
1)
Do you want to record the user clicks (actions)?
If so eclipse provides a Location tracker, so you can analyse the use cases from the field.
OperationHistoryActionHandler
2)
Do you want to have a smarter way the user uses your tool?
Think about using Wizards. in a Wizard you can have a defined number of execution steps. The user does not need to search some button in a view.
With a Wizard a specific execution flow is very clean and good to understand.
3)
As Jonah mentioned you can use cheatsheets as well.
We once did something similar, where we had a rather big user interface that had heaps and heaps and heaps of different functionalities. Our solution was this:
We abstracted all actions into commands. They were all implemented in a way that they can be cascaded, undone, redone etc. See for example IUndoableOperation
The commands had conditions that made it easy to decide if one could combine these commands.
All commands have an ID and can be easily identified
We then continued to integrate our own run configurations. We added a UI that gave the user the option to cascade multiple commands into one big one. For example, A user wanted to create a new file, apply a template, generate some graphs, export them into a given location etc, the user would create a run configuration adding those commands together.
That way we kept the UI comprehensive but gave the expert user the ability to create their own workflow based on what they do every day.
Our users liked that quite a bit.
I am not quite sure how to ask this and if my title is correct. Please edit this question if seen fit.
Redmine has a feature where user can filter certain user defined parameters when performing search:
I would like to know if there is a term for this kind of feature so I can research more regarding this. I'd also like to know if there are existing technologies (i.e. frameworks/cms/plugin) that support this kind of feature. I want to reuse exising technologies if possible and at the same time have this kind of search feature.
My requirements are similar to that of Redmine. That is, instead of Issues, I search Users and the attributes related to that user. The requirements are as follows:
I can add a user, specify the attributes related to this user.
Perform a search on the user and specify the parameters where to the search the user.
My guess is that there is no real term for this, beyond "advanced search"; unfortunately these functions range from simple to mind-bogglingly advanced.
This is pretty wide question, but I'm hoping to get a push in the right direction (technologies and methodology).
Ok, I have an iphone app (which I am developing) that works with a web service (c#) through http requests. The web service connects to the underlying database, extracts the necessary data depending on the request and feeds it back to the application.
Now, I need to implement a search system in the app. The user searches for some words, and I need to provide the most relevant results. The search must be performed on different tables in the database. Each table can be searched in a number of columns. For example, when searching through the people table I need to search in the first name, lastname, company, and other fields. Other tables have other important columns.
I have so many questions that I don't even know where to start.
How do I make my sql queries to make the search, but still be fast enough. Do I need to make some extra tables with indexed content somehow?
How should I add relevance factor to the results so I can ultimately filter only the most relevant results? For example, if an user searches for Smith, maybe there is a person named Smith or even a Company. They should be displayed before any other content that can have smith in the description.
I know the question is a little vague/wide but I can explain more if somebody desires.
Thank you
This kind of depends on which language/rdbms you are using on your server. You might checkout various DB search solutions like Sphinx which will do all of that indexing for you and provide a simple Search API. Sphinx for example allows you to prioritize columns, define character mappings (ß->s, ä->a) etc.
In the end I have decided to use Lucene. It's a wonderful piece of technology and even if I had some doubts in the beginning, after reading 3/4 of the book called "Lucene in Action" it was clear to me that it had everything I needed (and much more).
I know it's not a fully-functional searching system (with all the elements needed), but merely a library handling the core of a search system. It will need some work to integrate it with my application/webservice/database. I will let you know how it goes :)
Thanks for your input!