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Integrating Rasa as FAQ server

This is FAQ bot build on top of Rasa AI. This workflow is similar to intent detection using Rasa

To have it running we will need

  • Rasa running API
  • Rest API configuration in Live Helper Chat
  • Bot configuration in LHC

Install instructions for docker version​

git clone https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/faq-rasa.git && cd faq-rasa

Now to have your FAQ data you have to edit two files

  • Dockerfiles/faq/faq/data/nlu.yml

This is sample how question intent should be defined with multiple alternative questions

- intent: chitchat/ask_weather
  examples: |
    - What's the weather like today?
    - Does it look sunny outside today?
    - Oh, do you mind checking the weather for me please?
    - I like sunny days in Berlin.

Answers you have to define in

  • Dockerfiles/faq/faq/domain.yml

This is sample where we define answers. In this case we defined two combinations bot will be answering us.

  utter_chitchat/ask_weather:
  - text: "Oh, it does look sunny right now in Berlin."
  - text: "I am not sure of the whole week but I can see the sun is out today."

Now we can build our image

docker-compose build

Run for debug one time

docker-compose up

Run as a service

docker-compose up -d

To test

curl --request POST   --url http://localhost:5005/webhooks/rest/webhook   --header 'content-type: application/json'   --data '{
  "message": "weather berlin"
}'

Expected output

[{"recipient_id":"default","text":"Oh, it does look sunny right now in Berlin."}]

Install instructions for non docker version​

python3.6m -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -U pip
pip3 install rasa

# Optional, if you get some errors you can try this
pip3 --use-feature=2020-resolver install rasa

git clone https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/faq-rasa.git && cd faq-rasa

Now to have your FAQ data you have to edit two files

  • Dockerfiles/faq/faq/data/nlu.yml

This is sample how question intent should be defined with multiple alternative questions

- intent: chitchat/ask_weather
  examples: |
    - What's the weather like today?
    - Does it look sunny outside today?
    - Oh, do you mind checking the weather for me please?
    - I like sunny days in Berlin.

Answers you have to define in

  • Dockerfiles/faq/faq/domain.yml

This is sample where we define answers. In this case we defined two combinations bot will be answering us.

  utter_chitchat/ask_weather:
  - text: "Oh, it does look sunny right now in Berlin."
  - text: "I am not sure of the whole week but I can see the sun is out today."

After your modification you can train your bot and run it as Rest API server

cd rasa-faq/faq/Dockerfiles/faq/faq && rasa train

# Run as API server
cd rasa-faq/faq/Dockerfiles/faq/faq && rasa run -p 5005

Live Helper Chat configuration​

Create a new Rest API by navigating to

System configuration > Live help configuration > Rest API Calls

Just create a new. Configuration looks like this

We set body request as JSON and set content.

We also set Outpout parsing

Now just save.

Configuration bot in Live Helper Chat​

For bot configuration we only need three triggers

  • Default it has checked Default, Default for unknown message
  • Message received just message text with content {content_1}
  • Unknown - this message we will send if Rasa did not returned anything.

Default trigger configuration

Message received configuration

Unknown message configuration

Conversation example

What if I want to define custom answers in Live Helper Chat directly?​

Simples solution would be just as answer define keywords which afterwards ou can use in lhc bot.

We define just one answer

  utter_chitchat/ask_weather:
  - text: "rasa_weather"

Bot setup should be similar to this example

Don't forget to set your bot as default department bot.