Natural Language Understanding menu

The Natural Language Understanding (NLU) menu appears in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows. This menu enables you to quickly access, analyze, and configure intents, slots, slot types, and knowledge for your bot and enhance the customer journey.

Note: To use the multi-language support feature, you must use the native NLU engine.

NLU supportability

When you work with NLU, consider the following supported capabilities:

  • Slot types: Up to 500 per flow
  • Slots (entities) associated with a single slot type: Up to 10 per flow
  • List slot type: Up to 50 per flow
  • Regex slot type: Up to 20 per flow

NLU menu tasks

From the Natural Language Understanding menu, you can perform these tasks:

Menu itemDescription
IntentsClick this menu item to open the . In this view, you can create, view, and manage intents, utterances, slots, and slot types.
SlotsClick this menu item to open the . In this view, you can create and manage slots for your bot. Slots are the pieces of information from an utterance that helps to understand the customer’s intent.
Slot types

Click this menu item to open the . In this view, you can create, manage, and use , or you can use , , or in your bot flow. 

KnowledgeClick this menu to open the and incorporate new or preconfigured question and answer articles to create FAQ-style bots. The knowledge workbench is an authoring tool that enables you to create and manage knowledge, view knowledge performance, and test knowledge services.  For more information, see .